ISLAMABAD
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the Tax Directory will be launched during the current week. He said this while talking to a delegation of the open government partnership initiative led by Founding Minister of the organisation, Florencio Butch Abad, here on Wednesday.
The members of the delegation appreciated the bold step taken by the minister in this regard and hoped that the good tradition set by the present government will continue in future also.
The minister said that their visit to the country is an affirmation of the progress being made in Pakistan towards transparency, accountability, participation and technological innovation. He said that Pakistan has come a long way in improving governmental processes since the present government assumed responsibilities four years ago.
Since 2013, “We have joined OECD multilateral convention on mutual administrative assistance in tax matters in September last year, and it is my sincerest effort that we also join the OECD convention on anti-bribery soon,” the minister said.
Abad said that Pakistan’s economic and financial achievements are being internationally acknowledged.
He said that the delegation’s current visit to Pakistan will help in the co-creation of a national action plan with civil society.
He also said that during the current visit they have realised that Pakistan has made considerable progress in the fiscal openness initiative which is also one of the objectives of the open government partnership.
