PM for ensuring transparency in tax system.

Islamabad -- Prime Minister Imran Khan has emphasised the importance of expanding the tax base in order to enhance government's capacity to provide better facilities to the people, saying that the government was making efforts to bring transparency into the tax system so that every patriotic citizen could play its role in national development

Talking to Federal Board of Revenue Chairman Shabbar Zaidi and National Database and Registration Authority Chairman Usman Yusuf Mobeen here on Friday, the Prime Minister said that paying taxes was a national obligation but restoring trust of tax payers was of crucial significance.

According to a statement issued by the PM Office, the prime minister said increasing the tax net would not only reduce burden on existing tax payers but would also ensure provision of health, education and other civic facilities to people living in far-flung areas of the country.

The meeting comes in the wake of FBR proposals to bring all wealthy segments of the society in the tax net.

Punjab minister calls on PM

Punjab Minister for Auqaf Saeedul Hassan on Friday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan and briefed him about steps being taken by the provincial government about making property of Auqaf Department for the wellbeing of the masses.

The visitation was in follow up to a high-level meeting presided over by the prime minister here last Friday. On...