Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) has demanded immediate withdrawal of mandatory condition of CNIC/ NTN vide SRO-821(I)/2011 for all purchases made by any unregistered person which creates immense hurdles in doing business smoothly and business and industrial community cannot comply with it. President KCCI Mian Abrar Ahmad in a statement has stated that numerous complaints were received from members on revised income tax, sales tax and federal excise returns especially on CNIC/NTN condition which became mandatory from January 1, 2012. He further said, a unilateral decision should not be taken by FBR and this is very unfortunate that major changes have been made without consultation with the business and industrial community of Karachi which has made it practically impossible to file the tax returns and would only result in declining tax revenue and would also force genuine tax payers to operate outside the tax net. We are major stakeholder and representative of business and industrial community of Karachi, which alone contributes 68 per cent of the revenue so before framing any policy, KCCI should be taken on board. He demanded that FBR should not burden the already registered tax payers by imposing condition of furnishing CNIC/NTN for their sales because business and industrial community, already facing manifold problems like power, gas and water shortage, law and order situation and 2-weekly holidays.
