3.8 million people not in tax net

The Federal Board of Revenue has told the Public Accounts Committee that 3.8 million people do not pay income tax, but live luxurious lives, residing in upscale areas and going abroad twice a year. In testimony to the committee, FBR Chairman Ali Arshad Hakeem on also briefed that the FBR had prepared two amnesty schemes, one to bring these people into the tax net, another to make Pakistanis bring back  money that was kept abroad. He was responding to audit objections about non-recovery of taxes.