Tax evaders
Published in DAWN on December 5, 2013
THIS is apropos of your
editorial ‘Same flawed methods’ (Nov 30). It seems that our government never
learns from its mistakes. Providing incentives to tax evaders has never helped.
It has only encouraged them to cheat again and again.
Only those nations whose
citizens pay taxes can make progress. While Americans and Israelis contribute
$2,000 each every year towards the defence budget of their countries, a
Pakistani has to pay only $37 a year for the country’s defence.
The prime minister should
withdraw the recent incentives and ensure strict punishment for tax evaders and
electricity and gas thieves, smugglers and such others who have been looting
the nation.
The government should either
compel agriculturists to pay taxes or make a law to prevent them from being
elected to assemblies. The only way this country can recover is by recovering
taxes from all its citizens, even if it means loss of popularity for the ruling
party.
SHAKIR LAKHANI
Karachi
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