FBR to launch crackdown against Karachi beauty parlours

[El Sidd]

Well, We are people who invented proverb of "100 Jootay, 100 Piaz khana" and that's what our society is in general. People will not be ready to pay 10% direct tax (which will be more for state in term of value as it will directly go into state's kitty) but will take bamboo of accumulated 30-35% indirect taxes where most of it go into pocket of crooks.

shrewd people these.

i wonder how socialism will work with such a mentality

 

[Abdussamad]

Thanks for the wish and as for capacity, we all know how the state did a clean up of the vast part of the country from terrorists and mafias.

What clean up?

 

[xyxmt]

fbr will destroy remaining business activity left in Pakistan.There are many other respectable methods to raise taxes.New fbr chief seems to be another disaster

that is good, pay tax or stop activity....that is how this system works everywhere.

 

[Bouncer]

they should ban it under luxury items

Sir, you are too good. Please quit whatever you are doing and join this current administration as an economic czar. This nation will forever be in your debt.

 

[Counter-Errorist]

My problem with this is that there's an ocean of very profitable businesses in Karachi they could be targeting and they are instead picking on the weaker ones.

Pakistan's biggest markets in Saddar blatantly avoid taxis, bring in smuggled goods and find every nook and cranny of the law pinching paisas. But the ones getting targeted are beauty parlours, which are usually run by girls in the family mostly as hobbies and aren't exactly high yield for taxes.

It's not that they should not be taxed. Every business, and every taxable income needs to be brought into the tax net. But they need to start from the top and work their way to the bottom, and not the other way aroujnd.

It's curious to me, why single out beauty parlours here? There's a milkshop, mechanic, hardware store, grocery store, panwala, real estate guy, and myriads of other untaxed businesses at every street corner in Karachi. I guess they're not fun to harass. Perhaps the FBR officials are simply looking for a peek inside now that Ramzan is over.

 

[El Sidd]

Sir, you are too good. Please quit whatever you are doing and join this current administration as an economic czar. This nation will forever be in your debt.

meri gardan zyada patli dikhti hai?

 

[Bouncer]

My problem with this is that there's an ocean of very profitable businesses in Karachi they could be targeting and they are instead picking on the weaker ones.

Pakistan's biggest markets in Saddar blatantly avoid taxis, bring in smuggled goods and find every nook and cranny of the law pinching paisas. But the ones getting targeted are beauty parlours, which are usually run by girls in the family mostly as hobbies and aren't exactly high yield for taxes.

It's not that they should not be taxed. Every business, and every taxable income needs to be brought into the tax net. But they need to start from the top and work their way to the bottom, and not the other way aroujnd.

It's curious to me, why single out beauty parlours here? There's a milkshop, mechanic, hardware store, grocery store, panwala, real estate guy, and myriads of other untaxed businesses at every street corner in Karachi. I guess they're not fun to harass. Perhaps the FBR officials are simply looking for a peek inside now that Ramzan is over.

Going after wholesalers and retailers in places like Saddar and Raja Bazar etc will have a political cost. No government dares to touch these billionaires. Beauty parlors and restaurants are low hanging fruit.

And you are very wrong in assuming that beauty parlors are a low income business these days.

 

[tarrar]

Good move.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Everyone should pay tax. Beauty parlors are earning millions but paying zero tax. Good initiative, Bring them in tax net.

 

[nahtanbob]

trying to balance your books by going by beauty parlors ...
they must be making a lot of money
otherwise this is comical

Yes and that will mean open rebellion against the state and they will be treated as a traitor.

Who are the masters -- the state or the people ?

 

[Meengla]

You are confusing power of state with government, governments can be formed by incapable and corrupt people looking for self interests hence weak but the state is quite powerful - look how despite all crying and winning people pay indirect taxes which state impose, that's power of state, we only need people with will at charge.

Yes, I was thinking about how the 'indirect taxes' are so widely enforced in Pakistan. Not that I have much of personal experience with that, been away for so long, but I hear the enforcement is quite effective. Good!

And you are right: The State is quite powerful; it has put into place MQM, TTP, BLA, Jeay Sindh QM, TLP and work in progress on PTM...

 

[American Pakistani]

trying to balance your books by going by beauty parlors ...
they must be making a lot of money
otherwise this is comical



Who are the masters -- the state or the people ?

How about you indians start using Bangladeshi or Burmese currency so that we can take a lesson?

What clean up?

Cleanup from altaf mafia and liyari gangsters as well as ttp.

 

[Abdussamad]

Cleanup from altaf mafia and liyari gangsters as well as ttp.

TTP took responsibility for one of the latest terrorist attacks. Lyari is still a hotbed of violence.

 

[American Pakistani]

TTP took responsibility for one of the latest terrorist attacks. Lyari is still a hotbed of violence.

Not even close almost dying down. Current rise of violence can be traced to Pishteen terrorists movement.

 

[Super Falcon]

And do not allow manufacturers to pass on their taxes on consumer goods by increasing the price