Heading: MINISTER UNDERSCORES NEED FOR BROADENING TAX BASE - 2024-05-22
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has a capacity to generate Rs27,000 billion in terms of taxes and we will not need the loans of International Monetary Fund (IMF) if we only collect half of this tax.
This was stated by Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif at the launching session of a research report titled ‘Illicit Cigarette Trade in Pakistan – Current Situation and Way Forward’, produced by the National University of Science & Technology (NUST).