PESHAWAR: Launched for taxpayers’ facilitation and tax acculturation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the days registration drive of KPRA concluded in Peshawar on Thursday.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA) provided instant registration facility to unregistered business owners associated with services sector in Peshawar in the three days drive conducted on the special directive of Director General KPRA Fayyaz Ali Shah. The USAID-KPRM provided financial and technical assistance to KPRA to successfully conduct the drive.
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Over a hundred new taxpayers were registered and dozens more were identified during the three days campaign in which teams of KPRA including male and female inspectors and facilitation officers visited the business premises of potential taxpayers for awareness and providing instant registration facility.
On the third day the KPRA registration team setup their mobile registration camp at Shiraz Ronaq located in Saddar for the facilitation of the taxpayers who visited the camp and got their business registered on the spot. The field teams visited areas of Saddar, Warsak Road, Charsadda Road, Ring Road, Gul Bahar, Khyber Bazar and Namak Mandi providing information regarding sales tax on services to potential taxpayers and collecting their data for providing registration.
“We are thankful to the people of Peshawar for their positive response to our teams. We are also thankful to USAID-KPRM for their support in the drive and we expect that they would continue their support to KPRA and will help it in building tax culture in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” said KPRA Director Legal Aftab Ahmad in his statement adding that the goal of KPRA is to make the provincial government resources rich so that it has enough funds to finance its public welfare schemes. Aftab Ahmad also appreciated the efforts of the KPRA teams and told them to complete their homework for the upcoming campaigns in the rest of the province