Pakistan, unfair tax system
In modern economic times, there is a clear measure of tax being fair or unfair, usually the tax system stands on two pillars. No. 1 Direct Tax No. 2. Direct Taxes, Income and Asset Taxes are direct taxes. These are levied on income and assets while customs duty, sales tax, excise duty are the types of direct tax. This tax is paid by every consumer (buyer) while buying poor and rich as this tax is included in the price. Pakistan Total directly accounts for 35% of tax collected tax revenue while these direct taxes are 65%. Direct taxes in India account for 45% of national income, so we can fully estimate that wealthy people have a greater share in India's tax system, while the burden of taxes in Pakistan is more on the poor than on rich men.
Recently, in the name of money budget, many food items with double bread have been taxed at 17%, which is also shouting to the middle class people. In Pakistan, since the darling half of the elite society is better, it shows a great degree of misery in paying taxes. Therefore, the easy way for every government to collect taxes is to increase the prices of petrol, gas, electricity prices, medicines.There is no acceptable forum in Pakistan to inform the nation about its usefulness and importance in terms of tax culture, tax evasion is considered a craftsmanship with us. Sin is not considered kabira, so great haji worshippers are found to be involved in it, we do not have a tax culture. The total population of Pakistan is close to 220 million. Two million pay taxes. This number can be doubled easily without any help. In developed countries, people pay taxes as national responsibility. Tax evasion is considered to be the worst act on a moral level. Formal lectures on its importance are organized in schools, colleges and all educational institutions, denmark, the world's proudest tax country, collecting 46% of the collective national product tax.
We also have a big question: Why could we and our national body not increase the number of Federal Board of Revenue taxpayers? Because of their distrust of the government, people do not consider paying tax as a national duty. It has been stuck in the public interest that our tax is not of use to us, but it is spent on the government's tool work. The real reason is the bad intentions of the taxpayers.The second reason for non-collection of reasonable taxes is the unfair tax system, the third major reason is the dishonesty of tax officers and high level of inefficiency, not every tax officer is dishonest but most of them are very bad. Recently, there has been a major terrible scandal of sales tax refunds. If some FBR officers are dishonest, taxpayers are on-the-backs, if traders are asked to give receipts and install cameras, they use the strike tactic. Lawyers and doctors should be banned from charging their fees through banks. There are doctors and lawyers in Pakistan whose annual income is in crores of rupees Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Nawaz Sharif had said about the huge fees of lawyers that He was fed up with paying lawyers' fees.
According to Chairman Shabir Zaidi, there are 14,000 registered companies in Pakistan, of which about half are filers. The minister claims that only Liaquatabad in Karachi pays taxes at par with lahore traders, the strictest punishments should be organized for tax payers. No one can imagine not paying taxes in the UK, if tax evasion is caught, double the tax is collected. What is remarkable about us is that 70% of direct tax comes from withholding tax which is deducted from source every P. The question arises as to what is the need for the army of income tax officers to be present, not on wealth tax income but on assets which is less collected due to low value of assets, tax has been imposed on 12 acres of numbering but the income tax from big landlords has been avoided. It is time to take the tax burden on those who live in localities and take a walk on long cars whose children study abroad and have their own holidays in Europe.
Our lack is that our education system does not give any incentive sussertabout government tax. My suggestion to the Government is to include it in the curriculum of colleges and schools and to hire scholars and sheikhazam to highlight the importance of tax. Father of the Economy Adam Smith had said, "No. 1 tax system should be more applicable to fair U i.e. tax rich man and less should be applied to poor man, no. 2 should be transparency i.e. tax laws can be easier and common man understands and people know how much tax they have to pay No. 3 The government should be sure that it will achieve the tax target. 4 Taxes should be collected at least by spending. Does our complex tax system and demeaning and humiliating people meet the above principles laid down by The Father of Economics (Adam Smith)
