Tax officers have extensive powers
Islamabad: The government on Friday extended the wings of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to almost all districts by setting up 145 tax offices and empowered them to disconnect electricity and gas connections as well as block mobile numbers that do not file tax returns. The drastic administrative and legal measures have been taken with the aim of bringing 2 million more people into the tax net by June next year, an extremely ambitious target that the FBR would have to achieve to meet its Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) commitments. . and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As


