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ISLAMABAD: While most making mere claims of doing so, there is one member of the National Assembly in Pakistan who has set a precedent and made his income tax returns public.
Jehangir Tareen, a member of the National Assembly from Rahimyar Khan in Punjab and belonging to Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, has formally sent to the Election Commission of Pakistan the details of his income tax paid for tax year 2009.
Tareen, a business tycoon, has informed the Election Commission to have paid Rs19.3 million as income tax on behalf of his wife, children and himself for the tax year 2009.
Tareen, who has emerged a role model in a country where the politicians are generally considered as tax evaders, gave to the Election Commission the break-up of his income tax deposited.
It includes Rs2.7 million income tax deducted from salary and deposited; Rs22,752 deducted as income tax from his salary as member of the National Assembly; Rs108,959 tax deducted on cash withdrawal from bank; Rs8.1 million paid as income tax on his agriculture income; and Rs8.3 million tax deducted on dividend.
What makes Tareen different from others on yet another count is the fact that unlike vast majority of other landlords and agriculturists, he has even paid tax on his agriculture income. Generally the big agriculturists and those having huge land holdings in Punjab, Frontier or Sindh dont pay even a penny to the government despite earning huge profits.
While submitting these details to the Election Commission, Tareen in his covering letter addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan said: In my budget speech on the floor of the National Assembly of Pakistan, I requested all the fellow parliamentarians to voluntarily declare the personal income tax paid by each of us.
In keeping with my statement, I am voluntarily disclosing the personal income tax paid by me in the tax year 2009, he said, requesting, Please, include this with my Statement of Assets and Liabilities already submitted on September 26, 2009. He also assured the Chief Election Commissioner that he would now be regularly submitting his income tax paid statement together with the required statement of assets and liabilities.
Pakistan?s first parliamentarian to offer details of taxes paid | Maverick Pakistanis
ISLAMABAD: While most making mere claims of doing so, there is one member of the National Assembly in Pakistan who has set a precedent and made his income tax returns public.
Jehangir Tareen, a member of the National Assembly from Rahimyar Khan in Punjab and belonging to Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, has formally sent to the Election Commission of Pakistan the details of his income tax paid for tax year 2009.
Tareen, a business tycoon, has informed the Election Commission to have paid Rs19.3 million as income tax on behalf of his wife, children and himself for the tax year 2009.
Tareen, who has emerged a role model in a country where the politicians are generally considered as tax evaders, gave to the Election Commission the break-up of his income tax deposited.
It includes Rs2.7 million income tax deducted from salary and deposited; Rs22,752 deducted as income tax from his salary as member of the National Assembly; Rs108,959 tax deducted on cash withdrawal from bank; Rs8.1 million paid as income tax on his agriculture income; and Rs8.3 million tax deducted on dividend.
What makes Tareen different from others on yet another count is the fact that unlike vast majority of other landlords and agriculturists, he has even paid tax on his agriculture income. Generally the big agriculturists and those having huge land holdings in Punjab, Frontier or Sindh dont pay even a penny to the government despite earning huge profits.
While submitting these details to the Election Commission, Tareen in his covering letter addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan said: In my budget speech on the floor of the National Assembly of Pakistan, I requested all the fellow parliamentarians to voluntarily declare the personal income tax paid by each of us.
In keeping with my statement, I am voluntarily disclosing the personal income tax paid by me in the tax year 2009, he said, requesting, Please, include this with my Statement of Assets and Liabilities already submitted on September 26, 2009. He also assured the Chief Election Commissioner that he would now be regularly submitting his income tax paid statement together with the required statement of assets and liabilities.
Pakistan?s first parliamentarian to offer details of taxes paid | Maverick Pakistanis
