Asset Declaration Scheme attracts record 137,000 people, Rs 70 bn taxes: Hafeez
Asset Declaration Scheme attracts record 137,000 people, Rs 70 bn taxes: Hafeez Shaikh.
ISLAMABAD (APP) – Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said that record 137,000 people declared their assets and deposited taxes worth Rs 70 billion under the Asset Declaration Scheme which expired on July 3.
This is the biggest number of beneficiaries in a single scheme in Pakistan’s history which made it unique to other schemes in which the people also declared their assets worth of over Rs 3000 billion, he said while addressing a press conference here flanked by Minister for Revenue Hammad Azhar and Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Shabbar Zaidi.
