Tax amnesty scheme
Sir: According to a news item, the
Punjab Chief Minister is trying to persuade the Finance Minister to announce a
tax amnesty scheme for those non-filer traders who have refused to get
registered and do not wish to pay taxes. It seems that Pakistan is the only
country in the world where tax thieves are rewarded, while the honest taxpaying
class is penalised. If the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government
agrees to the scheme, it will only prove what we have suspected all along: this
party does not care for the interests of the nation. Rather it will take any
steps to hold on to power, even if it means destroying the country. Instead of
rewarding tax-evading traders, the government should arrest them and take them
out in processions with their faces blackened. Their assets should be
confiscated and they should be made to serve time in jails. If the government
cannot do that, but accepts the unreasonable demands of traders, the least it
can do is to return the amount of taxes paid by honest citizens over the past
10 years.
Shakir
Lakhani
Karachi
Karachi
Printed
in Daily Times, October 18, 2015
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