KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has been urged to bring all persons having industrial and electricity utility connections into tax net to ease tax burden on existing taxpayers.
Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) in its proposals for budget 2021/2021 said that currently the taxpayers and filers of income tax returns, particularly industrial entities are overburdened with multiplicity of taxes.
Overburden of taxes on already registered taxpayers is depriving them of level playing field and business viability against non-taxpayers.
The chamber proposed that all the entities engaged in business having commercial and industrial utility connections but are out of tax base should be brought to tax-net making them taxpayers and filers.
According to NEPRA Industry Report 2019 and FBR Tax Directory Data 2018, the number of commercial and industrial consumers is higher as compared to registered Tax Payers with a huge difference, who must be brought into tax-net as they are commercial and industrial entities but out of tax-net.
The chamber said that it would ease down the burden of taxes over registered taxpayers and shall also broaden the tax base resulting to further documentation of economy.
