Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan chief Imran Khan said on Sunday that rulers are neither paying taxes nor correctly declaring their assets.
Addressing the post budget conference here, Imran Khan said Pakistan has defaulted and the rulers are enjoying at the cost of poor, adding that corruption in on the rise.
Imran said the rulers are not paying the tax adding that the big leaders have not declared their true assets. He stressed to impose a “tax emergency” to save the country because the policy to run the country on loans has failed.
Sixty-two paisas of a rupee collected in tax goes to pay the interest on loans while the rupee is also shedding value against the dollar fast, Imran said,
Sixty-one per cent of those sitting in assemblies do not pay taxes. it is imperative to bring the rich under the tax net and reduce of the lavish government spendings instead of printing currency notes, he added.
The corruption is so thick today that even the State Bank has turned into a corrupt institure, he added.
“The deficit in Pakistan Steel Mills has reached more than Rs40 billion in the last four years, while corruption done in Pakistan International Airlines and Pakistan Railways is not hidden, too.”
“The outstanding arrears which are a result of 400,000 illegal connections as noted by the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) have to be borne by the consumers in the shape of tariff hikes,” said Khan.
He questioned the expenditure for maintaining chief minister houses in all four provinces. “We have four CM houses while the people are starving.”
“The people in power should pursue austerity,” said the PTI chairman. “They should restrict their expenses.”
Imran said that corruption in Pakistan has reached its saturation point. “Either corrupt people will survive or Pakistan will. Corruption in Pakistan has reached a point where they cannot co-exist.”
He said that according to a survey conducted by Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda), in the last four years, about 2.8 million air conditioners were bought, while bills for only 185,000 were being paid.
Slashing the moves of Punjab Chief minister, Imran khan termed the recent shifting of session in Minar-e-Pakistan “all drama”.
Slamming Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Imran khan said the annual expenditures of presidency were above Rs. 610 million.
Adding recommendations, he said NAB should be made an independent institution and politicians should declare their assets correctly.
Imran khan ruled out all possibilities of coalition with PPP or PML-N.
Imran was flanked by party’s Policy and Planning Cell head, Jahangir Khan Tareen and Asad Umer.
Rulers not correctly declaring assets: Imran Khan
