Daily Times

FAISALABAD: An event to mark the 1st, 2nd and 3rd balloting of Amanat Scheme under the Restaurant Invoice Monitoring Scheme (RIMS) was organised by Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) on October 8 in a hotel.

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah was the chief guest at the ceremony and announced the names of the winners for prizes of cars, Umrah tickets, tablets, food coupons and LED TVs.

The minister congratulated the department for its innovative way of generating taxes and spreading awareness about the benefits and uses of taxes amongst the masses. He reiterated the government’s stance to adopt innovative tax generating ideas and conduct workshops to educate the people of Pakistan.

He showed his satisfaction on the progress made by PRA in such short time period and assured PRA had full support to grow as a modern, state-of-the-art tax collecting agency.

PRA Chairman Raheel Siddiqui talked about the reforms under taken by PRA for the achievement of its targets such as RIMS in Faisalabad and its associated Amanat Scheme, inclusion of BOP for tax collection, commencement of senior & junior internship programme and setting up of virtual learning environment(VLE) for training officers.

The chairman also shed light on the newly developed beauty parlours invoice monitoring system and the commencement of tax clinics for various sectors. He further reiterated his department’s future plans to collaborate with FBR, Excise & Taxation, Social Security & industrial department for the sharing of tax payer directory, expansion of its invoice monitoring system to other big cities such as Rawalpindi and Multan with the inclusion of hotels, marriage halls, courier services, and property dealers & estate agents.

Published in Daily Times, October 11^th 2017.