Pakistan, Aug. 4 -- The Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has issued a landmark judgment directing the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to give relief to 12,000 taxpayers who had deposited Rs2.6 billion tax under the Tax Amnesty Scheme (Assets Declaration Ordinance 2019) but were unable to upload their asset declaration due to failure of the FBR online system on the last day.
The FTO recommendation states that despite the passage of almost an year, FBR has taken no measure to address grievances of the aggrieved taxpayers. It further said that FBR was well aware of the failure of its online system, due to which 12,000 taxpayers suffered.
The FBR had contended in its reply to the FTO that the filing of declaration of assets and not the payment of t...