LAHORE: The Punjab government is set to overhaul its tax system through advanced digital tools as the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) and the World Bank agreed to expand the tax base and improve revenue collection.
A World Bank delegation led by Regional Director Michael Roggi and Manager Sylvia Solf met PRA Chairman Moazzam Iqbal Sipra to discuss measures to modernise the province’s tax administration.
The two sides agreed to make effective use of digital databases, implement the digital economy enhancement project and study international best practices in taxation. Sipra said digital tools would help bring new businesses into the tax net and stressed the need to integrate data from different government departments to make tax collection more transparent and efficient. “Digital data will help identify tax evasion, misappropriation and discrepancies in business records,” he said.
With technical and financial support from the World Bank, the PRA and the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) will jointly prepare a comprehensive plan for digital tax reforms. “A practical roadmap for tax reforms will be developed with the technical assistance of the World Bank,” Sipra added.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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