PESHAWAR
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA) on Monday organized an interactive session for private sector taxpayers. The aim of the session was to facilitate the private sector in terms of their tax paying affairs, said a handout.
The event was organized by UK Aid in collaboration with SEED Programme at a local hotel in Peshawar. Telecommunication, hotels, restaurants, wedding halls, beauty salons and others attended the event.
The forum informed the participants about issues related to sales tax on service. Fayyaz Ali Shah, Director General (DG) KPRA thanked the participants for attending the interactive session in his welcome remarks.
“The aim of the session is to provide an opportunity to our taxpayers where we listen to their issues and find out ways to resolve them,” he said, adding that KPRA has been arranging seminars and workshops for its taxpayers’ facilitation and will continue to conduct such sessions in future.
“We are trying our best to make tax filing easier for you,” he said, adding that video tutorials on processes relating to sales tax registration, tax payment and returns filling are available on KPRA website and social media pages for taxpayers’ assistance. The forum was opened for questions where the participants asked their queries and the DG KPRA and his team responded to the questions and assured full support and cooperation from his team.
The participants appreciated KPRA and SEED for providing the forum and assured that they will comply with the laws and rules of KPRA.
“Public consultation on every issue is much needed and we are thankful to KPRA for consulting us and providing us the forum,” said Khalid Ayub head of hotels and restaurants association in his remarks.
