ISLAMABAD: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Sohail Ahmed said the government directed all the regulations regarding tax should be implemented.Addressing a seminar at Lahore Chamber of Commerce here, he said the board would meet its targets and goals without causing any harassment or embarrassment to the tax defaulters.The FBR chairman said the agri-tax is a sensitive issue and it is only for the parliament to take decision on it.He said the plan is in progress to bring down the inflation from 15 to 9 percent.Sohail Ahmed said the success or failure of Pakistan depends on whether the businessmen pay their tax willingly or unwillingly, adding he called upon the traders to deem the FBR their partner not a rival.The FBR chief said the blood in the body of the country is Rs1100 billion collected by the FBR.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
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