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Persuasion cannot replace enforcement
EDITORIAL: When the head of the country’s tax authority must ask business leaders to persuade retailers to comply with the law, it goes without saying that something is seriously wrong with the tax system. Yet this is precisely what FBR (Federal Board of Revenue) Chairman Rashid Mahmood Langrial did this week, asking the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) to actively promote the recently introduced retailers’ scheme so that the tax burden on already-compliant taxpayers could be reduced. The message conveyed by this approach is highly troubling. Paying tax is not a...
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