Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial has remarked that every day 40million dollars are being smuggled out of Pakistan asking the government totake measures to stop dollars’ flight to other countries.
The CJP expressed these remarks on Friday while hearing a case pertainingto the super tax.
During the hearing, the Supreme Court ordered to bind all petitionschallenging the super tax together and fix them for hearing next week.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice ofPakistan Umar Ata Bandial heard the case.
At the outset of the hearing, the FBR lawyer told the court that the finaldecision of the Lahore High Court was announced.
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FBR lawyer Faisal Siddique said that the LHC had suspended theimplementation of the order till the final decision on the case. He saidthat the apex court often asked the companies to submit 50% of the paymentin tax cases.
However, the companies lawyer Ferogh Naseem contended that after therelease of the final decision of the high court in the case, the FBRpetitions had become ineffective. The court could not order for theimposition of 50% super tax after the petitions were rendered ineffective,he maintained.
CJP Bandial suggested to fix the hearing of the case next week remarkingthat the FBR came to the court in the super tax matter with good intention.He said that the court knew that the Shell already paid millions in taxes.
