In order to bring more people into the tax net, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Zubair Tiwana has informed the upper house that non-filers will risk having their SIM cards, gas, and electricity connections suspended.
Moreover, the Senate’s Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue approved a proposal to impose a foreign travel ban on non-filers.
The FBR Chairman also stated that a higher withholding tax rate was approved for non-filers. He added that the non-filer list included 500,000 individuals with annual incomes exceeding 2 million.
“We must eliminate the non-filer category in the country,” stated the Finance Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Aurangzeb earlier on Geo News.