ISLAMABAD: A sharp increase in withholding tax rate (may be up to 30 percent) on profit on banking deposits has been planned for non-filers in order to make it almost impossible to stay remain unregistered, sources said.
Sources told PkRevenue.com that Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) a large sum of banking system deposits were remained undocumented resulting large number of people out of tax net and massive tax evasion.
Under Section 151 of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 the withholding tax rate on profit on debt for filers is 10 percent with no limit on earned amount and 10 percent for non-filers up to Rs 0.5 million. However, 17.5 percent withholding tax rate for non-filers driving profit on debt above Rs0.5 million.
The sources said that the tax rate for non-filers driving profit on debt above Rs0.5 million may be increased to 30 percent.
According to State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) the total deposits of the banking system reached to all time high of Rs13.456 trillion by March 2019.
The sources said that the proposed increase in profit on debt would force the people having undocumented or black money parked in the banking system to file their returns in order to reduce the tax impact.
In return, the sources said, the FBR would get information of people having large amounts in the banking system.
