{"id":37088,"date":"2024-05-22T12:56:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T07:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=37088"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:56:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T07:56:03","slug":"over-3600-non-filers-sims-blocked-so-far-fbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/over-3600-non-filers-sims-blocked-so-far-fbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 3,600 non filers\u2019 SIMs blocked so far: FBR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) blocked over 3,600 SIMs of non-filers across Pakistan so far, it emerged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sources privy to the development said that FBR is sharing details of 50,000 non-filers to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) daily as FBR has identified 56,671 individuals who have not filed their tax returns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Non-filers\u2019 SIMs will be blocked gradually in small groups and the blocking is being done under Income Tax General Rules 114B to <\/span>encourage tax compliance and widen the tax net.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Moreover, the joint working group has expressed concern over the blocking of mobile SIMs of non-filers, sources added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fbr-to-start-blocking-mobile-sims-of-tax-non-filers-from-today\/\">FBR to start blocking mobile SIMs of tax non-filers from today<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Earlier, the Telecom Companies had refused to block the SIM cards of 506,000 identified non-filers due to technical and operational obstacles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIn a statement, Telecom companies stated that there are legal complexities in implementing FBR\u2019s directives,\u201d the private media channel said quoting sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FBR said over half a million SIM cards that are being used by persons who haven\u2019t filed their taxes are being blocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) blocked over 3,600 SIMs of non-filers across Pakistan so far, it emerged on Wednesday. Sources privy to the development said that FBR is sharing details of 50,000 non-filers to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) daily as FBR has identified 56,671 individuals who have not filed their tax returns. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17293,17292],"class_list":["post-37088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-fbr-non-filers-sims","tag-non-filers-sims-blocked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37088","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}