Times of Islamabad

Chairman FBR Shabbar Zaidi sought banks cooperation in identifying benami accounts

Chairman FBR Shabbar Zaidi sought banks cooperation in identifying benami accounts

ISLAMABAD – Chairman FBR Shabbar Zaidi has sought the cooperation of banksin identifying the benami accounts.

In a statement today, he said we want the banks to seek details of benamiaccounts of their account holders.

He said the FBR does not want to directly contact the account holders inorder to keep intact the confidence of the people on the tax collectionbody.

The Chairman said that the information regarding benami accounts will bekept secret. He said the cooperation of all the banks is very important toidentify benami accounts. He said the banks have been requested to submitdetails of benami accounts in fifteen days’ time.