Published in The News on June 27, 2006
As if the taxpayers didn't have enough problems, now the sales tax department personnel have been authorised to barge into any premises and seize records and do as they will. This is only going to make the honest taxpayers suffer bouts of insecurity and uncertainty. They will have sleepless nights if an error is detected in their books (even a minor clerical or accounting mistake), they can be fined heavily and even sent to prison. So what is new? The victims have always been those who have paid taxes regularly because they have records to show that they paid.
The department has the nerve to penalise those who refuse to register with the department, they are harassing those who made the mistake of obeying the law and registering voluntarily. And you can bet that nothing will happen to those worthy gentlemen who indulge in massive looting of the exchequer will always be treated like VVIPs, for they have close connections with those who matter in this so-called Islamic republic.
Shakir Lakhani
Karachi.
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