–PM Khan paid Rs0.103m, Nawaz Sharif Rs0. 263m, Pervaiz Elahi Rs2.13mISLAMABAD: Disqualified Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Khan Tareen remained the highest taxpayer in 2017 among the 1,071 parliamentarians as he paid Rs97 million tax. Federal State Minister for Revenue Hamad Azhar on Friday launched the Taxpayers’ Directory 2017 for parliamentarians and all taxpayers at the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) Headquarters. The FBR chairman said that it has been the fifth consecutive year that the tax directory for the parliamentarians and the taxpayers is published by FBR. There had been a 34 per cent increase in the number of tax filers because of the steps taken by FBR, said the chairman.

Source: Pakistan Today February 22, 2019 18:45 UTC