Featured PM’s tax payment surged 172pc in 2018-19; while 172 lawmakers paid 'zero' tax in 2018-19

[muhammadhafeezmalik]

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued its tax directory of the parliamentarians for the Tax Year 2018-19, ARY News reported on Friday.

• Former premier Abbasi emerged as highest taxpaying parliamentarian
• CM Buzdar, Vawda, Zartaj Gul among non-taxpayers
• 311 MNAs, 90 senators paid Rs800m


These parliamentarians belonged to the Upper and Lower Houses of the Parliament.


According to the tax details, Prime Minister Imran Khan paid tax of Rs2,82,449, Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari paid Rs 2,94,117 and former president Asif Ali Zardari paid tax of Rs28,91,455 in the year 2018. Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abassi paid Rs 241,329,362.



President Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Shehbaz Sharif paid Rs97,30,545 in terms of tax, Federal Minister Hammad Azhar Rs22,445, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Rs1,83,900 and Hamza Shehbaz paid tax of Rs87,05,368, the tax directory disclosed.


Planning and Development Minister, Asad Umar paid 53,46,342 rupees in tax while JI Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq paid Rs2,16,800 in national exchequer.


Furthermore, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz paid 3,67,460 rupees in tax in the year 2018-19, while Azam Swai paid 5,90,916 rupees, the tax directory disclosed.


Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Chaudhry Tanvir Ahmed Khan paid 32,38,733 rupees and Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak paid 18,26,899 as tax in the year.



According to tax details, Federal Minister for Railways paid Rs5,79,011 tax, Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Rs10,46,699, Minister for Communications Murad Saeed paid, 3,74,728 rupees, Maritime Minister Ali Zaidi paid Rs8,96,191 and Fawad Chaudhry paid Rs16,98,651 rupees in tax during 2018.


Meanwhile, the tax directly showed that Cheif Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar, Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda , former health minister Aamir Kyani and Zartaj Gul paid ‘zero’ tax in 2018.

Jahangir Tareen, Aitzaz Ahsan top taxpayers in FBR tax directory of parliamentarians

Prime Minister Imran Khan paid 1,03,763 rupees in tax in year 2017-18, while President Arif Alvi paid 3,77,511 rupees, the tax directory disclosed.

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For full detail:

http://download1.fbr.gov.pk/Docs/20209181193812348ParliamentariansTaxDirectoryforyearended30June2018.pdf

 

[muhammadhafeezmalik]

Even I pay more tax than our Minister responsible for tax collection, but I can not even dream about to the lifestyle he maintains.

 

[muhammadhafeezmalik]

The tax return figures of Pakistani parliamentarians never cease to amaze and the statistics for the year 2018 released on Friday have not disappointed either as they show that only five lawmakers paid 60% of the total amount paid by members of the lower and upper houses of parliament in taxes.
Making matters more interesting, the Tax Directory 2018, which the PTI government launched on Friday after delay of almost one and half years, also reveals that 45 members of parliament did not even submit their income tax returns to the Federal Board of Revenue for that year.

Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who is also the senior vice president of the PML-N, leads the list of the highest tax-paying lawmakers as he paid Rs241.3 million in income tax during the year when he was premier of the country.

His returns were 8,000% higher than the previous year and also equal to 30% of the total taxes paid by all members of parliament.

The tax returns of Prime Minister Imran Khan also jumped by 172% to Rs282,449 in 2018 in comparison with the previous year. As a tax year starts on July 1 and ends on June 30, the figures were submitted during the first year of the PTI government.

The figures show that tax contributions of the parliamentarians are constantly increasing since the launch of the first edition seven years ago.

However, they remain below potential given the lawmakers’ lifestyles.

Of the 401 National Assembly and Senate members, who submitted their income tax returns for 2018, 70 paid more than Rs1 million.

But after excluding the top five taxpayers who paid almost 60% of the total taxes, the payments by the remaining 396 members are very low.

 

[muhammadhafeezmalik]

28 PTI, 7 PML-N, 5 PPP and 3 MMA members National Assembly paid 'ZERO' tax

	Name	Party
1	Agha Hassan Baloch,	BNP
1	Mohsin Dawar,	IND
2	Mohammad Aslam Bhootani,	IND
1	Zahid Akram Durrani,	MMAP
2	Abdul Shakoor,	MMAP
3	Syed Mehmood Shah,	MMAP
1	Ms Farukh Khan,	PML - Q
1	Muhammad Sajjad,	PML-N
2	Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali Bhindar,	PML-N
3	Ali Gohar Khan,	PML-N
4	Saad Waseem,	PML-N
5	Ahmad Raza Maneka,	PML-N
6	Rana Iradat Sharif Khan,	PML-N
7	Noorul Hassan Tanvir,	PML-N
1	Raza Rabbani Khar,	PPPP
2	Naveed Dero,	PPPP
3	Irfan Ali Laghari,	PPPP
4	Ms Naz Baloch,	PPPP
5	Ms Shamim Ara Panhwar,	PPPP
1	Muhammad Bashir Khan,	PTI
2	Malik Anwar Taj,	PTI
3	Jawad Hussain,	PTI
4	Aamer Mehmood Kiani,	PTI
5	Mansoor Hayat Khan,	PTI
6	Syed Faizul Hassan,	PTI
7	Malik Muhammad Ehsanullah Tiwana,	PTI
8	Muhammad Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel,	PTI
9	Nawab Sher,	PTI
10	Sahibzada Muhammad Mehboob Sultan,	PTI
11	Muhammad Ameer Sultan,	PTI
12	Malik Karamat Ali Khokhar,	PTI
13	Rai Muhammad Murtaza Iqbal,	PTI
14	Zahoor Hussain Qureshi,	PTI
15	Makhdoom Zain Hussain Qureshi,	PTI
16	Muhammad Ibrahim Khan,	PTI
17	Syed Mobeen Ahmed,	PTI
18	Muhammad Shabbir Ali,	PTI
19	Makhdoom Zada Sayed Basit Ahmad Sultan,	PTI
20	Niaz Ahmed Jakhar,	PTI
21	Khawaja Sheraz Mehmood,	PTI
22	Jamil Ahmed Khan,	PTI
23	Ms Asma Qadeer,	PTI
24	Ms Aliya Hamza Malik,	PTI
25	Seemi Bokhari,	PTI
26	Ms Rubina Jamil,	PTI
27	Ms Fauzia Behram,	PTI
28	Ms Rukhsana Naveed,	PTI

 

[arjunk]

a fkin mcdonalds employee pays more tax
time for a revolution

 

[313ghazi]

How is this possible these people are all on huge salaries. Why is there not an investigation into each and every one?