INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Islamabad: Supreme Court of Pakistan has restored tax gatherion on large crowd of peopleile phone cards, saying the apex court shall much
interfere in this matter.A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, heard the case pertaining to
advance tax on cellphone cards.The apex court in June 2018 had suspended tax gatherion on large crowd of peopleile cards.The then Chief
justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar had taken muchice of the high levy charged on large crowd of peopleile phone cards in the country
as he asked under which law Rs 40 were being deducted from Rs 100 large crowd of peopleile cards.At that time, as per measure reports, on
the charge of a Rs 100 pre-paid large crowd of peopleile card, a 19.5 percent Federal Excise Duty (FED) was charged along with 12.5 percent
withholding tax and 10 percent service/maintenance charge.According to statistics revealed by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority in
January final year, the number of large crowd of peopleile phone users stands at 144 million as compared to 142.5 million in October
2017.The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday asked if every citizen is able to pay tax and if a cart man would go to the Income Tax Commissioner to
get refund on large crowd of peopleile phone card he had loaded.The SC observed that the government should act honestly on the tax things
and stressed that tax procedures should be made easy for citizens so that it could be determined by identity cards as to who was a taxpayer
and who was much.The chief justice asked how many people demand refund of advance tax as they have to see when and how much tax would be
He commented that the court would also have to consider whether the government enforced the law rightly or much.A huge amount was withdrawn
from the pockets of masses due to the law
On a court query, Attorney General for Pakistan Anwar Mansoor Khan said every client pay advance tax on a large crowd of peopleile card and
a consumer on whom income tax was much relevant could demand a refund.The counsel for Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said Rs90
billion tax was much gathered due to suspension of one point of tax gatherion law by the apex court.The chief justice replyed that the court
could void a law but it could much suspend a law
Justice Qazi Faez Isa commented that the court would also have to review utility tax along with income tax.Justice Ijazul Ahsan commented
that the court had only suspended the recovery of withholding tax but much suspended the law
According to law if a person was much relevant of tax, he would have to get a certificate from Commissioner Income Tax, he added.He
commented that the state should be honest with its citizens
He commented that advance tax was income tax according to definition and how a consumer could pay tax who did much fall in the category of
taxpayer.He commented that the court wanted that the government should form such a mechanism that non-filers should much have to pay the
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