ISLAMABAD: A Chartered Accountant firm, A F Ferguson & Co, has stated that there were no discrepancies in the tax returns and wealth statement filed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif in 2011 and 2012.
According to the report, the tax returns filed by the prime minister and his daughter were in accordance with the law and had no discrepancies.
It said that the plot bought in Maryam Nawaz’s name in 2011 was registered in the correct column of the tax returns document.
It further said that Maryam Nawaz’s name was not registered as a dependent person in the tax returns. It said that the name was written in Column 12 because there was no separate column for independent children in the form at that time.
The tax returns form was changed in 2015 by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and it added the column for ‘others’ then.
The report said that Maryam was herself a tax filer at the time of the purchasing of plot. She got the plot registered in her name next year after paying the amount through bank and showed the plot under her name in 2012-13 tax returns.