ISLAMABAD – The government is inviting the top taxpayers of the country tohave dinner with Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has compiled a list of Pakistan’s top 50taxpayers to be invited for the dinner. A summary has been sent to theFinance Ministry to seek time from the PM in this regard. The list includesboth individual taxpayers and the large taxpaying companies.
The top taxpaying companies are Oil & Gas Development Company Limited(OGDCL), Pakistan Petroleum (PPL), Pakistan State Oil (PSO), and largebanks including United Bank Limited (UBL), MCB, National Bank, Silk Bankalong with other companies including telecom firms.
The heads, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), or the representatives of thesecompanies will attend the dinner with the PM. The individual taxpayersinvited to the dinner include Arif Habib, Syed Shahzad Hassan Shah, HassanMansha, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Wazir Ali Pardhan, Syed Irshad Ahmed, MianAmir Mansha, Imtiaz Hussain, Babar Ali, Rehan Hussain, Abdul Ghaffar Memon,Malik Shahid, and others.——————————
As per the sources in the Finance Ministry, the dinner has been organizedto encourage the taxpayers and also to get their recommendations regardingpolicies to enhance the tax revenue.
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Practical recommendations will make it to the budget. Notably, the premierhad promised, soon after he took the oath as a PM, that he will organize adinner with the top 50 taxpayers every year.
Ministers including Finance Minister Asad Umar, State Minister for RevenueHammad Azhar, Minister for Planning and Development Khusro Bakhtiar,Adviser to the PM for Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood, the FBR chairman, histeam, and heads of the investment board, Securities & Exchange Commissionof Pakistan (SECP), and other organizations will also be present at thedinner.
