Lahore : Following the FBR head office, the Regional Tax Office Lahore II has also issued National Tax Numbers (NTNs) to all members of the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday who are non-NTN holders. Official sources said that members of Senate as well as the all provincial assemblies including Punjab Assembly have been asked to file their returns by Feb 7, 2014, otherwise their tax status would be declared as non-filer in the Tax Directory by Feb 15, 2014. The RTO II Chief Commissioner Ch Safdar has issued NTNs to 39 non-National Tax Number holder members of Punjab Assembly while other MPs who were issued NTNs from their respective RTOs included 23 members of the Provincial Assembly.
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 9 members of Provincial Assembly of Balochistan and 8 members of Provincial Assembly of Sindh. The department has also issued over 100 NTNs to the non-NTN holder parliamentarians, conveying to the non-filer parliamentarians to file the income tax returns by February 7. Tax Directory would specify the names of the MPAs along with their tax status as non-filer and non-payer of taxes by Feb, 15. They said that Finance Minister has directed the FBR to ensure the issuance of NTN to parliamentarians. Last date to file tax returns was Dec 16, 2013 and now after issuance of NTN the tax details of all MPAs would be made public by February 15, 2014. In the first phase, tax details of parliamentarians would be made public and in the next phase tax details of all taxpayers would be published within two months.