President, Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Mian Abrar Ahmad has urged the Chairman FBR to immediately rescind/ suspend SRO 191(I)/2012 till budget in the larger interest of the country and de-block the FBR's GST Filing Portal to allow registered taxpayers to file their returns without CNIC/NTN condition until the matter is finally resolved in the agreed timeframe with the consultation of all the chambers/stakeholders.
President KCCI referred the meeting of Business Persons Council (BPC) held on April 5 2012 at Islamabad under the chair of Finance Minister wherein the representatives of KCCI, FPCCI and other leading chambers demanded to suspend the SRO 191(I)/2012 till the budget which was agreed. It was also decided in the BPC meeting to constitute a committee comprising members of Chambers to devise/propose some alternate mechanism for the documentation of the economy to replace the said SRO.
He informed that the Chairman FBR, in the meeting with delegations of KCCI and FPCCI held on April 9 at Karachi also agreed to maintain status-quo as decided in the Business Persons Meeting and sought the alternate proposal/ methodology to replace SRO 191 from the constituted committee comprising the members of KCCI, FPCCI and other leading Chambers. He said that it was surprising to read that FBR has not received any instructions.-PR