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Staff Reporter
KARACHI: KATI has proposed FBR to introduce online service of tax payment in order to facilitate taxpayers. The Patron In-Chief, Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI), S M Muneer, Chairman, Razzak Hashim Paracha, Vice Chairmen, Najmul Arfeen and Amjadullah Khan have advised the Federal Board of Revenue to introduce the online service of tax payments so that taxpayers particularly businessmen could pay their taxes without any hassle.
They hoped that FBR would be able to collect more taxes and would be able to achieve an ambitious revenue target of Rs1.66 trillion for the next fiscal year.
Paracha while hailing the decision by Excise and Taxation Department to extend facility to the taxpayers to pay Motor Vehicle Tax (MVT) online said that the department has successfully achieved its target of tax collection and hoped to cross the next fiscals target through online service as most of the people would opt this system as they would not like to wait in long queues by wasting their precious time.
He said that positive and consumer based approach has enable FBR to achieve revenue target for the fiscal of 2009-2010.
The President, Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF) Mian Zahid Husain while welcoming the decision to bring the MVT online said that the world is moving fast towards online services and one window operations and urged the FBR and other government departments to extend online services to the taxpayers so that they could save their precious time and avoid unnecessary hassles.
He cited the example of Bangladesh where one can obtain business license online and pay taxes deal with the government functionaries while just getting online.
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