OKARA City News

Easy method of collecting tax stressed

From Our Correspondent

OKARA: Punjab Excise and Taxation Department collectors are accused of deliberately giving last two or three days of a month to the taxpayers to pay the tax before the end of the month or pay the fine if they fail to deposit the tax on due date.

Talking to The News, citizens Ali Raza, Sarfraz and Khurram Shahzad have alleged that the fine on tax amount unreasonable. They said Excise and Taxation Department must evolve a system to collect tax monthly, which would be easy to pay for public. Paying tax is the first and foremost responsibility of people, but the department should not adopt severe methods of collecting tax.

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