{"id":77683,"date":"2025-06-17T10:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T05:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=77683"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T05:25:40","slug":"pm-shehbaz-forms-special-committee-to-probe-arrest-of-tax-defaulters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-forms-special-committee-to-probe-arrest-of-tax-defaulters\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz forms special committee to probe \u2018arrest\u2019 of tax defaulters"},"content":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: In a recent development, Prime Minister (PM) Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif addressed reports in the media about the arrest of tax defaulters <\/a>and issued stern instructions that no such legal measures should be employed to harass the business community and taxpayers under any circumstances<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister instructed the establishment of a special committee to address<\/span>\u00a0this\u00a0<\/span>issue<\/span>. The prime minister presided <\/span>over\u00a0<\/span>a review meeting of\u00a0<\/span>issues<\/span> about<\/span> the Federal Board of Revenue<\/a> (FBR), the PM Office Media Wing said in a\u00a0<\/span>statement<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The prime minister was\u00a0<\/span>informed<\/span> that the legal provisions for the\u00a0<\/span>arrest of\u00a0<\/span>defaulters in\u00a0<\/span>sales tax\u00a0<\/span>had been\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>part of the law since the 1990s,\u00a0<\/span>but<\/span>\u00a0in the\u00a0<\/span>wake<\/span>\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>rulings<\/span>\u00a0by the courts,\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>clauses\u00a0<\/span>were being\u00a0<\/span>altered<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span>make them more coherent.<\/p>\n

The meeting was attended by the Ministers for Defence, Law, Commerce, Economic Affairs, Information and Broadcasting, Minister of State for Railways, Chairman FBR, economic experts, and senior officials.<\/p>\n

After thoroughly reviewing the matter, the prime minister opined that harassing regular taxpayers was unacceptable.<\/p>\n

<\/span>“<\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>dignity<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>respect<\/span>\u00a0of the business community and investors\u00a0<\/span>mean<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>lot<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to us, and any <\/span>unwarranted<\/span>\u00a0harassment is\u00a0<\/span>unacceptable,”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>quoted\u00a0<\/span>the press release, press release qouted.<\/span><\/p>\n

PM Shehbaz\u00a0<\/span>also<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>directed<\/span>\u00a0that the\u00a0<\/span>arrest<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>warrant<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>under\u00a0<\/span>applicable<\/span>\u00a0tax\u00a0<\/span>law<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span>reserved<\/span>\u00a0only\u00a0<\/span>for<\/span>\u00a0cases\u00a0<\/span>concerning<\/span>\u00a0defaulters of an extraordinary\u00a0<\/span>magnitude<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The prime minister also\u00a0<\/span>ordered<\/span>\u00a0that\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>proper<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>mechanism<\/span>\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>outside<\/span> review and checks and balances be established in the <\/span>matter<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>arrests.<\/p>\n

Provisions\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>safeguard<\/span>\u00a0against\u00a0<\/span>abuse<\/span>\u00a0of these laws should be included in the Finance Act, he\u00a0<\/span>also<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>noted<\/span>. PM Shehbaz ordered <\/span>that all\u00a0<\/span>the government’s\u00a0<\/span>allied parties\u00a0<\/span>in the parliament\u00a0<\/span>must<\/span>\u00a0be consulted on this\u00a0<\/span>issue<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: In a recent development, Prime Minister (PM) Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif addressed reports in the media about the arrest of tax defaulters and issued stern instructions that no such legal measures should be employed to harass the business community and taxpayers under any circumstances. The Prime Minister instructed the establishment of a special committee to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":69643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5404,131,29499],"class_list":["post-77683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pm-shehbaz-sharif","tag-fbr","tag-tax-defaulters-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77683","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=77683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77684,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77683\/revisions\/77684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}