The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has identified serious discrepancies in the National Tax Number (NTN) database, and has constituted a task force to start cleansing data of those taxpayer who have either closed their business or are not operating, for any reason, since 1995.
In this connection, the CBR issued an order on Friday to notify the names of the members of the task force. The task force would be headed by Qudratulla, RCIT, Northern Region, Islamabad, and its members will br Imtiaz Ahmad Khan, Chief, Automation (DT) PRAL; Ruqayya Khan, Project Director (NTN Project) PRAL; and Shaukat Cheema, Second Secretary (Tax Base).
The CBR has informed the task force that NTN Master Index has grown to 2,500,095 NTNs by gradual registration of taxpayers since 1995. Field formations of Direct Tax Wing have removed the inactive taxpayers from their records.
At the same time, the field formations were unable to add the names of the newly registered taxpayers by the NTN Cells of PRAL. For such reasons, the number of taxpayers reported by field formations is 1,910,000, whereas the CBR data gives figure of 2,500,095, showing a discrepancy of 590,095 cases.
Moreover, as a result of the exercise conducted by CBR for verification of NIC/CNIC Numbers with Nadra, NICs of about 740,000 NTN holders could not be verified through electronic matching. Duplicate issuance of NTN has also been noticed in many cases.
Similarly, issues relating to cleansing of data of infractions cases and duplicate NTNs are pending with the concerned department.
A large number of taxpayers have been registered without allocation of Income Tax Zone/Circle code creating documentation problems for the income tax department.
In order to resolve these issues and cleansing the NTN Master Index, the task force would submit its report on top priority basis.
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