ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Monday, conveyed to the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to improve profiles of non-filers for effective utilisation of data.

In this connection, the senior officials of the NADRA held a meeting with the FBR including FBR Member Inland Revenue (Operations) at the FBR Headquarters.

Sources told Business Recorder here on Monday that a team of the NADRA visited the FBR to convene a meeting on the issue of taxpayers’ profiling. The FBR has asked the NADRA to further refine the data so that the citizens cannot question the authenticity of the profiles. Both sides discussed in detail the ways and means to improve the tax profiles in the light of recommendations submitted by the FBR.

The FBR will upload 3.5 million NADRA’s profiles of non-filers on the new portal.

In the past, the FBR had provided third-party data of 14 million people to the NADRA. The authority has mixed its own data with the FBR’s third-party records and finally developed profiles of non-filers. The Nadra has identified 3.5 million non-filers by applying three different methodologies using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The FBR will upload the profiles on a new portal to be launched for the general public.

The FBR will give some time period to the non-filers to respond to the profiles available on the new portal. The FBR will also launch a massive media campaign in this regard. The non-filers would be allowed to file returns free of cost and the FBR will pay Rs5,000 to the tax lawyers for filing of each income tax return of non-filers.

Non-filers can come forward and clear their position after analysing their data on the FBR’s web portal.

The non-compliant non-filers would face consequences of disabling of their mobile phones or disconnections of their electricity and gas connections, etc.

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