Interest in amnesty scheme blooms; Plan in 48 hrs to serve procrastinators: PM

ISLAMABAD, Jun 27 (APP):Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday said that within next 48 hours, the government would come up with a program to accommodate the procrastinators who had emerged in a huge number at the last moment to avail tax amnesty scheme expiring on June 30, 2019.
Talking to Pakistan Television’s special transmission “Aap Ka Paisa –Aap Kay Kaam”, the prime minister said he had discussed with his Finance Advisor Abdul Hafeez Sheikh and Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Shabbar Zaidi as how the government could facilitate such a people.
He said it was being discussed whether the government should allow the people, complaining the paucity of time, to register within the deadline and get benefit from the scheme after June 30.
Reiterating his call to the nation to avail the tax amnesty scheme, the prime minister said being a non-filer was an illegal act. Besides, the country could not be steered out of the debt trap unless the people paid taxes.