Speakers at a training workshop asked the officials of various department to help the government in promoting tax culture in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, WealthPK reports. The workshop was organised by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA) for the officials of government departments of Bannu division to build the capacity of its public sector withholding agents, promote tax culture in the province and increase tax compliance.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Mobilisation (KPRM) assisted the KPRM in conducting the workshop. The participants included officials of the district administration of Bannu and Lakki Marwat, the accounts office, public health engineering department, tehsil municipal administrations of Bannu and Lakki Marwat, and education department, local government departments, colleges, universities, Water and Sanitation Services Company Bannu and Bannu board.

In his welcome remarks, KPRA additional collector thanked KPRM for assisting KPRA and the participants for attending the workshop. He shed light on the importance of taxes for the development of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the country as a whole. He also spoke about the history of sales tax on services and the mandate of KPRA. He assured the participants of complete support. “We need your assistance in ensuring complete tax compliance to generate revenue for the government to be spent on public uplift schemes,” he said. He added that he and his team would be available to everyone for any assistance in tax compliance.

KPRA Assistant Collector Akhtar Rasool briefed the participants on the KP Sales Tax on Services Withholding Regulations, 2020, in his presentation and explained the whole process to calculate, withhold sales tax from the service providers and submit sales tax returns. The KPRA team, including Audit Officer Kamil Zada, Audit Officer Wasifur Rehman and Inspector Mohammad Ishaq, answered the questions of the participants. The participants of the training workshop thanked USAID-KPRM and KPRA for providing them with the opportunity to learn and said that they would try their level best to ensure tax compliance and play their role in the progress and development of the country.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-WealthPk