ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has started investigation on complaints of issuance of “Fake” notices to individual.
Sources told Pakistan Today that it came to the notice of tax department that some individuals/group is sending fake notices to people. The people or group has all the details including the bank accounts of individuals, sources added.
A copy of fake notice is available state that a notice has been issued to Qamar-uz- Zaman and Kishwar Zaman under section 122c of the income tax ordinance 2001 for the tax year 2015.
Proceedings against the potential taxpayer commenced with the issuance of notice u/s 134(4} of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 as the taxpayer was found to have invested funds in making taxable Business Services of Tailoring, Chargeable transaction. However, the taxpayer did not comply with the requirement of the said notice.
Accordingly, to discharge the obligation of justice, final opportunity was provided to the taxpayer through a notice u/s 122C of the income Tax Ordinance, 2001 issued on 14-09-2017 was properly served upon the person through T.C.S # 030055666221, dated 16-09-2017.
Another apparently fake notice was issued to same persons for the tax year 2016. The letter states that “YOU were involved in taxable economic activity by investing Rs. 404011/- tn making taxable Tailoring Services of Goods, during the fax year 2017 and, as such were liable to file a return of income for the said tax year, However, despite issuance of notice u/s 114(4) of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001.
Similarly, the third notices was served to these individuals for tax year 2017 and asked to deposit Rs 404,011 as the individual has earned money from Tailoring Services of Goods, during the fax year 2017, who have, hitherto, chosen not to discharge their statutory obligation of filing of return of income for the tax year 2Q17. Thus, the undersigned is left with no other option but to pass a provisional assessment order in year case u/s 122C of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 by assessing your taxable income.
In addition to this, the same group/person has also written a letter to state Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and asked to recover the amount from the taxpayers account. Letter states that It is stated that subject taxpayers in the instant cases assessment orders were finalized by the Officer Broadening of Tax Base, Unit-OI, BTB, Zone, RTO, Karachi, u/s 122C(1) of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001. This office issued notices for recovery of the outstanding demand u/s 138(1) of the ITO, 200J but no response has been received from the taxpayer till date. As the taxpayer failed to comply hence this office intends to attach the Bank accounts of the following taxpayers so that the demand may be recovered.
One senior official of FBR told that the person has approached to tax officials and we have started investigation on this matter.
FBR writes a letter to concern bank for recovery of money, in this case, the fraud group has written a letter to SBP and also there is no bar code on the letter so if someone get the notice, they should see the bar code for authenticity of FBR notice.
