{"id":32598,"date":"2024-04-09T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T10:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=32598"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T10:21:20","slug":"fbr-all-set-to-block-sim-cards-of-500000-non-filers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/fbr-all-set-to-block-sim-cards-of-500000-non-filers\/","title":{"rendered":"FBR all set to block SIM cards of 500000 non-filers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 500,000 individuals whose sims have not been filed for taxes will have their accounts blocked by the Federal Board of Revenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recently published news report, FBR is planning to issue a general tax order after Eid-ul-Fitr announcing the blockage of sims for people who are liable to pay tax but have not filed returns. The sims will be blocked by the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>Following discussions with the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, FBR has already finalized a list of around 500,000 individuals.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the revenue collector has much bigger intentions, but it also intends to demonstrate its seriousness about pursuing tax compliance by disabling sims initially.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 2 million SIM cards were planned to be blocked by FBR, but telecom providers opposed the proposal, claiming it would be difficult to carry out such a large-scale operation.<\/p>\n<p>The people who were likely to be affected by the measure had been served notices after they failed to file tax returns, but they did not budge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story__content  overflow-hidden      text-4 leading-tight text-black  \" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>FBR has powers to not only block sims but also disconnect gas and electricity connections.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fbr-officials-banned-from-interacting-with-any-media-persons\/\">FBR officials banned from interacting with any media persons<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 500,000 individuals whose sims have not been filed for taxes will have their accounts blocked by the Federal Board of Revenue. According to a recently published news report, FBR is planning to issue a general tax order after Eid-ul-Fitr announcing the blockage of sims for people who are liable to pay tax but have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2],"tags":[14874,14873],"class_list":["post-32598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-fbr-all-set-to-block-sim-cards-of-500000-non-filers","tag-fbr-to-block-sim-cards-500000-non-filers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}