*ISLAMABAD: The number of taxpayers in Pakistan has increased by 700,000over a year’s period, according to statistics shared by the Federal Boardof Revenue (FBR).*
As per the FBR’s stats, the total number of people who filed their taxreturns rose by 700,000 to a total of 2.154 million. Of these, some 700,000are salaried people.
The FBR further said proposals to impose fixed taxes were being mulled tobring the small and big business owners into the tax net.
Hailing the rise in numbers of people filing tax returns, Minister forScience and Technology Fawad Chaudhry tweeted on Sunday that so far 2.1million people had filed their tax returns, which was the highest in theFBR’s history.
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“FBR has projected a target to enhance these returns numbers to 4 millionfor the tax year 2019,” he wrote.
Earlier on July 14, Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Shabbar Zaidi hadsaid the last date for filing tax returns for the year 2018 had beenextended till August 2.
