{"id":61902,"date":"2020-02-25T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61902"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:26:53","slug":"karachi-marriage-halls-found-evade-pkr-9-5bn-tax-four-years-fbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-marriage-halls-found-evade-pkr-9-5bn-tax-four-years-fbr.html","title":{"rendered":"Karachi marriage halls found to evade PKR 9.5bn tax in four years: FBR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) recently stated that the city&#8217;s marriage halls had been found to evade PKR 9.5 billion in taxes during the last four years, a news source reported. Prior to the announcement, the Intelligence and Investigation wing of the Inland Revenue Department had conducted physical surveys of the banquet halls in question; following which they unearthed the evidence of this payments-evasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gujranwala-excise-sends-tax-notices-to-owners-of-vacant-plots.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Gujranwala Excise sends tax notices to owners of vacant plots (opens in a new tab)\">Gujranwala Excise sends tax notices to owners of vacant plots<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officials visited about 600 marriage halls and gathered data with regard to the charges of a single event arranged by the managements of these banquets. To this effect, the authorities found out that the marriage halls conducted a total of 1,743 functions on an annual basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rcb-to-raise-water-charges-property-transfer-tax.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"RCB to raise water charges, property transfer tax (opens in a new tab)\">RCB to raise water charges, property transfer tax<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the survey results revealed the administrations of these marriage halls charged taxes during these functions on behalf of the FBR but did not deposit it in the government accounts. Based on the survey calculations, the marriage halls were supposed to pay PKR 9.5 billion in taxes but they only paid PKR 410 million in the last four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-to-get-137000-unregistered-lahoris-into-tax-circle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"FBR prepares to get 137,000 unregistered Lahoris into tax circle (opens in a new tab)\">FBR prepares to get 137,000 unregistered Lahoris into tax circle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The taxation agency later issued notices to the managements of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/orders-given-to-unseal-24-marriage-halls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"marriage halls (opens in a new tab)\">marriage halls<\/a> and directed them to clear their dues within a time frame of 15 days. It further ordered its Inland Revenue office to pursue real-time monitoring of marriage halls and banquets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) recently stated that the city&#8217;s marriage halls had been found to evade PKR 9.5 billion in taxes during the last four years, a news source reported. Prior to the announcement, the Intelligence and Investigation wing of the Inland Revenue Department had conducted physical surveys of the banquet halls in question; following which they unearthed the evidence of this payments-evasion. Read: Gujranwala Excise sends tax notices to owners of vacant plots The officials visited about 600 marriage halls and gathered data with regard to the charges of a single event arranged by the managements of these banquets. To this effect, the authorities found out that the marriage halls conducted a total of 1,743 functions on an annual basis. Read: RCB to raise water charges, property transfer tax Further, the survey results revealed the administrations of these marriage halls charged taxes during these functions on behalf of the FBR but did not deposit it in the government accounts. Based on the survey calculations, the marriage halls were supposed to pay PKR 9.5 billion in taxes but they only paid PKR 410 million in the last four years. Read: FBR prepares to get 137,000 unregistered Lahoris&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":61403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[19230,20813],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-federal-board-of-revenue-fbr","9":"tag-pkr-9-5bn-tax","10":"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>Karachi marriage halls evade PKR 9.5bn tax in four years - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) recently stated that the city&#039;s marriage halls had been found to evade PKR 9.5 billion in taxes during the last\" \/>\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\/karachi-marriage-halls-found-evade-pkr-9-5bn-tax-four-years-fbr.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karachi marriage halls evade PKR 9.5bn tax in four years - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) recently stated that the city&#039;s marriage halls had been found to evade PKR 9.5 billion in taxes during the last\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-marriage-halls-found-evade-pkr-9-5bn-tax-four-years-fbr.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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