FBR harrass tax payers, sends threatening SMS

December 18th, 2009 by Kashif Aziz ( 954 Views )

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FBR Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue, the tax-man of Pakistan, recently came up with the idea of generating a “transparent” list of taxpayers for audit through computer based selection. The balloting was done on December 11, 2009 in presence of representatives of Chambers of Commerce of Pakistan, Tax Bar Associations, FBR and PRAL. Seprate lists for Association of Persons and Corporate Sector were generated (ballot results can be downloaded from here).

I am not going to discuss the transparency of balloting or the audit that will follow it. My concern is about a SMS from FBR that taxpayers have started to receive from today, a week after the ballot happened.

Here is what the SMS says:

Have you filed your tax return by declaring TRUE INCOME? Beware, December 31 is final deadline. Law will take its course for defaulters. We know your income. FBR

The message is sent by eFBR.

It is clearly an unsolicited message and threatening as well, like the boogeyman is watching you. Somebody should complain to PTA or invoke Cyber Crime Ordinance against them.

FBR website can be checked here. It also has an “e”-version, which flashes statements like “GOOD NEWS! Keeping Yourself Non-risky is in your own hands “

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James Killian Spratt
December 25th, 2009 16:00 GMT
I hope your authorities are not patterning on the US and western models, because ours are monstrous humanitarian disasters, blighting the lives of the 80% who are not part of the governments.

There is an almost unbreakable case to be made for every individual’s contributing part of their efforts toward the common good, but the main problems with income taxes are: (a) they create resentment in the working class (a strong working class is the muscles of a nation) toward government, which enjoys exceptional privileges such as retirement plans, free health and dental care and many others for which the working class must scramble or do without and that do not occur anywhere else in nature (b) they clearly reveal “government”’s snooty and superior attitude toward its people, and (c) if there are legal penalties for non-compliance, the income tax system fits every criteria of (government’s) conspiracy to defraud, racketeering, extortion and armed robbery, with the collective government as the criminal and the working populace as its victims. Every individual with any sense who is not part of government–therefore not a “frocked” recipient of the benefits of the money extorted–will attempt to elude or defeat such an imperious and predatory system, and the most obvious way to avoid it is to not make much money, which is self-defeating for both the individual and the government.

The solution is to abolish the income tax system altogether. Much more money can be raised, and much more fairly, (because the working class’ “slave” posture is eliminated and they will participate more willingly) through user and sales taxes on every commodity in equal measure in local monetary values at a flat percentage across the board. Great caution should be exercised to keep this percentile at a level of government that a nation can truly afford, as opposed to the level that government itself wants.

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