ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has started probing the assets of doctors who are residents of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and decided to induct them in the tax net.
Official sources told Customs Today that Directorate General Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue wing of FBR has issued notices to medical superintendents, chief executive officers, principals, senior doctors, professors and surgeons working in 15 big hospitals of the twin cities. The Directorate General IntellIntelligencenvestigation IR in its notices directed the respondents to provide the detailed list of doctors working in their hospitals or under their supervisions with the information having CNICs numbers, designations and NTN, sources confirmed.
Sources also told that Directorate General Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue wing of FBR also directed the respondents to provide these details within 15 days while if they are failed to provide such details required by the Wing, the authority has the power to take stern action under the rules and regulations of Federal Board of Revenue, sources added.
It is important to mention here that after reactivation of IR wing of FBR, the wing is taking serious steps to bring the tax evaders in tax net and recover the evaded amount of taxes.