PESHAWAR: Chief Commissioner (Inland Revenue) Regional Tax Office (RTO) Peshawar, Zafar Iqbal Khan has said that in consultations with the trading community comprehensive measures have been initiated to enhance the tax net. Addressing an online open court here on Thursday, he said that due to the survey of various markets 65364 new tax payers have been registered on tax-roll till the end of February 2024 beside the filling of voluntarily tax returns by 21600 individuals, which he termed a positive trend and encouraging progress towards the promotion of tax culture in the country. The Chief Commissioner said that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has taken a major step for looking into the tax related matters of some specified big industries and their directors and a Large Taxpayers’ Zone (LTZ) has been established in Peshawar to facilitate taxpayers at their door-steps. Highlighting the performance of RTO Peshawar, he said that a hard target of the collection Rs.162 billion was fixed till February. However, due to hard work of Zone Commissioners and their subordinate staff not only the target was achieved, rather a revenue of Rs.164 (2 billion surplus) was collected and deposited in the national exchequer. . The Chief Commissioner said that the achievement of tax targets is not possible without the cooperation of taxpayers and he considered them as the real strength of the tax collecting agency. He said that the joint efforts of FBR and taxpayers will bring improvement in the economy of the country and take…