APTMA demands withdrawal of FIRs against exporters.

LAHORE -- All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Adil Bashir on Saturday urged the federal government to stop FBR from harassment of taxpayers and withdraw all FIRs lodged against genuine and bonafide manufacturers and exporters.

He made this demand in a media release here and added that Prime Minister was all out to support the export-oriented sectors of Pakistan but some vested interests are bent upon frustrating the intents of the government by hindering the unprecedented growth in exports.

According to him, exports from Pakistan registered an impressive uplift over the last few months due to unflinching support by the prime minister but the pace of potential upsurge in exports may be retarded by unfriendly attitude of certain government functionaries.

He alleged that FASTER and Weboc systems of FBR have become glitches and FBR has itself repeatedly publicly admitted that FASTER system had multiple flaws and deficiencies. He regretted that instead of correcting the system and making it more efficient, field formations of FBR started lodging stereo typed FIRs against the taxpayers, and such moves may affect negatively the congenial business environment created due to hard efforts by the government.

In this regard, he claimed that Large Taxpayers Office (LTO) Lahore recently registered FIRs against leading textile exporters in total disregard to the fact that computer system of FBR had itself erroneously uploaded input tax adjustment of sales tax twice.

Adil Bashir alleged that FBR system had uploaded the data twice erroneously due to system error in September 2019 and there was no mis-declaration...