FBR eyes five million return filers in two years
(WorldNews Pakistan)

KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) aims to bring the number of income tax return filers to five million in the next couple of years as the tally of active taxpayers has already crossed 2.1 million for tax year 2018, an official said on Friday. “In order to achieve five-million-milestone, the FBR has launched several measures to encourage/force persons having taxable income to file their returns,� said Badar-ud-Din Ahmad Qureshi, Chief Commissioner Inland Revenue, Regional Tax Office (RTO)-II Karachi, at a press conference. The chief commissioner said in the first phase the RTO Karachi would ask large corporate entities and provincial departments to assure return-filing...