ISLAMABAD: Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has recommended disabling sales tax registration as soon application received for de-registration.
The FTO submitted proposals for budget 2021/2022, stating that in order to stop misuse of registration for issuing fake invoices, immediate disabling of the registration was proposed in electronic system as soon as the application for de-registration was received.
Sales Tax Registration of commercial importers was proposed to be allowed only to Income Tax filers along with other necessary cautions (i.e. declaration of Pakistan Customs Tariff (PCT) headings of the products they trade in) to check bogus registration.
Following budget proposals were also sent to FBR:
• to provide for immediate disabling of the registration in electronic system, pending final de-registration, as soon as the application for de-registration was received;
• to prescribe a list of documents/records to accompany the de-registration applications for the purpose of sub-rule (2) of rule 11; and
• suitable amendment to be made in rule 12(a)(vii) so that the Commissioner shall issue the orders of revocation of suspension within two weeks from the last date prescribed for issuance of show cause notice.
