{"id":55035,"date":"2019-09-08T10:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T05:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55035"},"modified":"2019-09-06T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:32:54","slug":"fbr-informs-pm-of-increased-taxpayers-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-informs-pm-of-increased-taxpayers-count.html","title":{"rendered":"FBR informs PM of increased taxpayers\u2019 count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has informed Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan regarding the increase recorded in the number of tax filers during the completion of the incumbent government\u2019s first year, according to a news source. The board officials presented a report which revealed that the number of new tax filers had more than tripled in the said time period.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-receives-over-2-5-million-tax-returns-zaidi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FBR receives over 2.5 million tax returns: Zaidi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the data shared, as many as 783,039 filed their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-issues-draft-forms-for-filing-income-tax-returns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax returns<\/a> as a result of various initiatives; such as the amnesty schemes, offered by the government. These new filers contributed PKR 2.583 billion in tax returns. This increase in the tax filers\u2019 number was seen as an encouraging development, especially compared to last year, where only 190,391 new tax filers were registered.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/file-income-tax-returns-online.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here Is A Complete Guide On How To File Income Tax Returns In Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The total number of tax filers went up by 69.1% (from 1.514 million to 2.561 million) between 2017 and 2018. FBR Chairman Shabbar Zaidi, along with a tax team, explained these statistics to the PM. They also apprised him of the measures to be taken in the future to improve the taxation mechanisms of Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has informed Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan regarding the increase recorded in the number of tax filers during the completion of the incumbent government\u2019s first year, according to a news source. The board officials presented a report which revealed that the number of new tax filers had more than tripled in the said time period. Read: FBR receives over 2.5 million tax returns: Zaidi According to the data shared, as many as 783,039 filed their tax returns as a result of various initiatives; such as the amnesty schemes, offered by the government. These new filers contributed PKR 2.583 billion in tax returns. This increase in the tax filers\u2019 number was seen as an encouraging development, especially compared to last year, where only 190,391 new tax filers were registered. Read: Here Is A Complete Guide On How To File Income Tax Returns In Pakistan The total number of tax filers went up by 69.1% (from 1.514 million to 2.561 million) between 2017 and 2018. FBR Chairman Shabbar Zaidi, along with a tax team, explained these statistics to the PM. They also apprised him of the measures to be taken in the future to improve&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":26795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12900,3362,12899,2032],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-amnesty-schemes","8":"tag-fbr","9":"tag-tax-filers","10":"tag-taxation-2"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FBR informs PM of increased taxpayers\u2019 count - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has informed Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan regarding the increase recorded in the number of tax filers\" \/>\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\/fbr-informs-pm-of-increased-taxpayers-count.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FBR informs PM of increased taxpayers\u2019 count - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has informed Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan regarding the increase recorded in the number of tax filers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-informs-pm-of-increased-taxpayers-count.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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