Provincial Minister for Finance Dr Aisha Ghous Pasha has said that Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) is on track to growth trajectory by achieving remarkable collection figures of Rs 49.49 billion in short period of first six months of the current financial year. The collection is 36 percent more than the same period of last financial year, she added.
She said credit also goes to the taxpayers who trust the government and play their role in the larger national interest. She was speaking at the annual dinner of Punjab Revenue Authority on Tuesday. The Minister said the Punjab government through its policies and actions has fulfilled its commitment by the launch, execution and completion of numerous development projects which have been appreciated at international level.
"I am fortunate enough to be a part of a team led by our Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif who is a person with a clear soul and one who works day and night for the betterment of the under privileged and less advantaged," she remarked. Chairman PRA Dr Raheel Siddiqui thanked the Finance Minister for her kind words and reiterated that the PRA with its new modern techniques of generating taxes would further bring more businesses into the tax net while increasing its tax collection every passing day.
He said the PRA has been very active in introducing new measures for the transparency of tax generation in the past few weeks which included the launch of STIRVE, a real-time sales tax invoice verification system that focuses entirely on denying bogus claims of input sales taxes.
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