{"id":59063,"date":"2019-12-25T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=59063"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:27:23","slug":"pra-to-bring-doctors-lawyers-other-professionals-into-tax-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pra-to-bring-doctors-lawyers-other-professionals-into-tax-net.html","title":{"rendered":"PRA to bring doctors, lawyers, other professionals into tax net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has announced its decision to bring doctors, lawyers, cable, cold storage and beauty parlour operators, cosmetic surgeons, and owners of wedding halls and hair transplant centres into the tax net, reported a news source.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/property-agents-asked-to-submit-professional-tax.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Property agents asked to submit professional tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For this purpose, the PRA officials held a detailed meeting with representatives of the Pakistan Tax Bar Association (PTBA) to increase sales tax on services offered in Punjab and increase tax revenue from these service providers.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-introduce-unified-tax-regime.html\">Punjab govt to introduce unified tax regime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRA affirmed the PTBA delegation that it will not issue tax notices prior to the registration of services providers; adding that it will be freeze their bank accounts and will seal their businesses in case of non-compliance. In response, the delegation members expressed their determination for bringing the service providers into the tax net in order to help increase the province\u2019s revenue collection.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the PRA officials are expected to hold meetings next month with representatives of the Services Association in Punjab in a bid to address their concerns. Furthermore, the taxation authority is also planning to hold a meeting with tax authorities from other province in order to address their concerns on the introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-introduce-single-tax-returns-reform.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Single Return Form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-govt-to-take-action-against-professional-tax-defaulters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sindh govt to take action against professional tax defaulters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the consensus is developed among the federation and all provinces, the apex tax authority will introduce the Single Return Form. The PRA also informed the meeting members that the issue pertaining to double taxation on tax payers will be sorted out before the next fiscal year\u2019s budget announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has announced its decision to bring doctors, lawyers, cable, cold storage and beauty parlour operators, cosmetic surgeons, and owners of wedding halls and hair transplant centres into the tax net, reported a news source. Read:\u00a0Property agents asked to submit professional tax For this purpose, the PRA officials held a detailed meeting with representatives of the Pakistan Tax Bar Association (PTBA) to increase sales tax on services offered in Punjab and increase tax revenue from these service providers. Read:\u00a0Punjab govt to introduce unified tax regime PRA affirmed the PTBA delegation that it will not issue tax notices prior to the registration of services providers; adding that it will be freeze their bank accounts and will seal their businesses in case of non-compliance. In response, the delegation members expressed their determination for bringing the service providers into the tax net in order to help increase the province\u2019s revenue collection. According to reports, the PRA officials are expected to hold meetings next month with representatives of the Services Association in Punjab in a bid to address their concerns. Furthermore, the taxation authority is also planning to hold a meeting with tax authorities from other province in order&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[14638],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-pra-to-bring-doctors-lawyers-other-professionals-into-tax-net","9":"cat-15015-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PRA to bring doctors, lawyers, other professionals into tax net - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has announced its decision to bring doctors, lawyers, cable, cold storage and beauty parlour operators,\" \/>\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\/pra-to-bring-doctors-lawyers-other-professionals-into-tax-net.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PRA to bring doctors, lawyers, other professionals into tax net - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has announced its decision to bring doctors, lawyers, cable, cold storage and beauty parlour operators,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pra-to-bring-doctors-lawyers-other-professionals-into-tax-net.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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