{"id":45811,"date":"2018-12-18T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T07:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=45811"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:15:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T07:15:49","slug":"number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: As many as 1.4 million people filed their returns compared to 1.1 million last year as the deadline for filing of income tax returns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/deadline-for-filers-of-tax-returns-expires-today.html\">expired on December 17<\/a>, a news source reported. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) refused to extend the last date any further.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline was automatically extended as the last date of filing of returns fell on a non-working day. As per General Clauses Act, the closing date was automatically extended to the next working day, that is, December 17.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-notifies-audits-closure-waives-penalties-for-salaried-class.html\">FBR notifies audit closure, waives penalties for salaried class<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was the fourth extension in the deadline for filers of tax returns as the board had originally set the deadline for August 31, which was later extended till November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State for Revenue Hammad Azhar later revealed that the government had launched a crackdown on 3,500 non-filers and gathered data of some 20,000 people who had bought vehicles worth over PKR 10 million or property worth over PKR 20 million in a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: As many as 1.4 million people filed their returns compared to 1.1 million last year as the deadline for filing of income tax returns expired on December 17, a news source reported. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) refused to extend the last date any further. The deadline was automatically extended as the last date of filing of returns fell on a non-working day. As per General Clauses Act, the closing date was automatically extended to the next working day, that is, December 17. Read: FBR notifies audit closure, waives penalties for salaried class This was the fourth extension in the deadline for filers of tax returns as the board had originally set the deadline for August 31, which was later extended till November 30. Minister of State for Revenue Hammad Azhar later revealed that the government had launched a crackdown on 3,500 non-filers and gathered data of some 20,000 people who had bought vehicles worth over PKR 10 million or property worth over PKR 20 million in a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":28692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9419],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-45811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: As many as 1.4 million people filed their returns compared to 1.1 million last year as the deadline for filing of income tax returns expired on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: As many as 1.4 million people filed their returns compared to 1.1 million last year as the deadline for filing of income tax returns expired on\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"atif_zameen_dev\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-18T07:15:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/taxes.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Manik Aftab\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Manik Aftab\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million - Zameen News","description":"Lahore: As many as 1.4 million people filed their returns compared to 1.1 million last year as the deadline for filing of income tax returns expired on","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million - Zameen News","og_description":"Lahore: As many as 1.4 million people filed their returns compared to 1.1 million last year as the deadline for filing of income tax returns expired on","og_url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html","og_site_name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","article_author":"atif_zameen_dev","article_published_time":"2018-12-18T07:15:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/taxes.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Manik Aftab","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_site":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Manik Aftab","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html"},"author":{"name":"Manik Aftab","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/52c244910a505c7871a12c9e4f9fe35a"},"headline":"Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million","datePublished":"2018-12-18T07:15:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html"},"wordCount":167,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/taxes.jpg","keywords":["Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html","name":"Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million - Zameen News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/taxes.jpg","datePublished":"2018-12-18T07:15:49+00:00","description":"Lahore: As many as 1.4 million people filed their returns compared to 1.1 million last year as the deadline for filing of income tax returns expired on","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/taxes.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/taxes.jpg","width":600,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/number-of-tax-filers-reach-1-4-million.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Number of tax filers reach 1.4 million"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Zameen.com","alternateName":"Zameen","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","width":600,"height":300,"caption":"Zameen.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","https:\/\/x.com\/ZameenProperty","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zameenpk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/52c244910a505c7871a12c9e4f9fe35a","name":"Manik Aftab","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/182ee2504481c87ee62582d23334157d5fcfb09a5714b3d12ddf1bd824e9907a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/182ee2504481c87ee62582d23334157d5fcfb09a5714b3d12ddf1bd824e9907a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/182ee2504481c87ee62582d23334157d5fcfb09a5714b3d12ddf1bd824e9907a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Manik Aftab"},"description":"Manik Aftab is a Content Developer at Zameen.com","sameAs":["atif_zameen_dev"],"url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/author\/manik"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45812,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45811\/revisions\/45812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45811"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=45811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}