ISLAMABAD: Stressing on the significance of tax payment, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said only 1.7 million people were paying tax, which couldn’t support 210 million population of Pakistan, ARY News reported.
Addressing a ceremony to honour taxpayers in Islamabad, PM Khan said the government couldn’t bear overall expenses under the current ratio of taxpayers in the country.
He said the indirect tax is collected from poor people, which is a great injustice. He said Pakistan had great potential and it could raise the revenue collection up to Rs 8 trillion.
The prime minister said collecting zakat from wealthy people and spending it on poor people was the fundamental principle of the State of Madinah. He said Pakistan couldn’t be made a welfare state without following that principle.
