ISLAMABAD: At least 100 out of 1,172 parliamentarians belonging to all political parties did not pay their taxes as per the tax directory of MPs issued by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
“To date, all the parliamentarians have obtained NTNs and out of a total of 1,172 parliamentarians, 1,072 have filed their income tax returns for the tax year ending on June 30, 2013. For the remaining parliamentarians, due process is being undertaken,” Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar stated in a brief statement while giving details of the tax directory of parliamentarians.
According to the tax directory for the year 2013, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has paid Rs2.646 million tax, Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq Rs148,868, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Rs3,644,003, Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique Rs1,215,365, Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan Rs57,124, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Rs824,891 and income tax levy of Rs2.701 million, the son-in-law of PM Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar Rs77,500, Muhammad Hamza Shahbaz Sharif Rs4,383,138, Federal Minister for Petroleum Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Rs1.205 million, Federal Minister for Water and Power and Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif Rs58,719 as income tax and Rs19,607 as income tax levy, PML-N parliamentary leader Shaikh Aftab Ahmed Rs315,115 income tax and Rs19,475 as income tax levy, Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal Rs11,084, Danyal Aziz Rs311,974 and Sheikh Rohail Asghar Rs5,903.
PTI Chief Imran Khan paid Rs194,936 tax, Asad Umar Rs532,918, Shaikh Rashid Ahmed Rs58,410, Shafqat Mehmood Rs168,100, Sardar Owais Ahmed Leghari Rs140,025 and Ghulam Sarwar Khan Rs557,034. Ch Pervez Elahi has paid Rs791,600 tax, the sister of former President Asif Zardari, Feryal Talpur Rs243,901, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah Rs62,214, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan Rs8,763,691, MQM’s parliamentary leader Dr Farooq Sattar Rs70,888 and Ch Shujaat Hussain Rs1,824,382 tax. The FBR has given details of 1,072 parliamentarians who filed their returns while the names of all those who did not bother to file returns were not included into this directory.
Those who have filed their tax returns with nil from the Senate include Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob Nasir and Gul Mohammad Lot. The non-filers in the National Assembly include Hamid ul Haq, Sajid Nawaz, Gulzar Khan, Siraj Muhammad Khan, Maulana Mohammad Gohar Shah, Amir Haider Khan, Mujahid Ali, Sheryar Afridi, Sardar Muhammad Yousaf (Federal Minister for Religious Affairs), Qari Muhammad Yousaf, Sher Akbar Khan, Murad Saeed, Salim Rehman, Iftikhar Uddin, Shabzada Tariqullah, Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob, Junaid Akbar, Bilal Rehman, Sajid Hussain Tori, Syed Ghazi Ghulab Jamal, Muhammad Nazir Khan, Ghalib Khan, Muhammad Jamaluddin, Bismallah Khan, Shahabuddin Khan, Alhaj Shah Jee Gul Afridi, Nasir Khan, Dr Muhammad Afzal Khan Dhandla, Ghulam Rasool Sahi, Muhammad Talal Chaudhry, Nisar Ahmed, Ghulam Muhammad Lali, Sahibzada Muhammad Nazir, Najaf Abbas Sial, Ch Asadur Rehman, Mian Tariq Mehmood, Rana Umar Nazir Khan, Azhar Qayyum Nahra, Nawabzada Maher Ali, Ch Jafar Iqbal, Ch Abid Raza, Ch Armaghan Subhani, Rai Mansab Ali Khan, Salman Hanif, Muhammad Arif Ch, Syed Muhammad Ashiq Hussain Shah, Rao Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Muhammad Moeen Wattoo, Malik Abdul Ghafar Dogar, Makhdoom Javed Hussain Hashmi, Abdul Rehman Khan Kanju, Muhammad Khan Daha, Rai Hussain Nawaz Khan, Rai Hasan Nawaz, Ch Muhammad Munir Azhar, Syed Muhammad Athar Hussain Shah Gilani, Ch Nazeer Ahmed, Sajid Mehdi, Sardar Muhammad Amjad Khan Khosa, Malik Sultan Mehmood, Ghulam Rabbani Khar, Sahibzada Faizul Hasan, Makhdom Syed Ali Hussain Gilani, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Ihsanur Rehman Mazari, Pir Sadaruddin Shah, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Sardar Kamal Khan Chan, Pir Noor Muhammad Shah Jilani, Malik Asad Sikandar, Shamas un Nisa, Muhammad Salman Khan Baloch, Muhammad Rehan Hashmi, Abdul Hakeem Baloch, Abdul Rahim Mandokhel, Abdul Qahar Wadan, Maualana Ameer Zaman, Mir Dostan Khan Domki, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Maulana Qamar Din, Mst Naseema, Mrs Aliya Kamran, Nafeesa Innayatullah Khan Khattack, Sajida Begum, Aashia Gulali, Shahida Akhtar Ali, Naeem Kishwar Khan, Begum Tahira Bokhari, Aisha, Begum Majida Wyne and others.