Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has accepted and resolved a long standing demand of Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) relating to sales tax refund and appointment on the collector customs and some other vacant posts at Regional Tax Office (RTO), facilitating taxpayers.
The FBR withdrew the instructions hampering the sales tax refund process under the PM package. Afan Aziz, SCCI president while thanking the FBR chief for resolving the chambers problems has expressed the hope that the other problems highlighted by the SCCI delegation would also be resolved soon. Earlier, a SCCI delegation led by Aziz and Senator Ilyas Ahmed Bilour had forwarded its demands in a meeting held on November 28, 2011 at Islamabad. The FBR chief on this occasion assured the delegation that their demands would soon be met.
The delegation apprised the FBR chief about the hurdles in implementation of the PM Financial Package announced in January 2010. They listed the difficulties of the taxpayers with regard to withholding tax on export, turnover tax, sales tax rate/refund and difficulties in implementation of the said package due to lack of staff.