FBR launches compulsory registration of kilns

FAISALABAD: The FBR Faisalabad region Wednesday started a ‘compulsory registration’ of kilns operating in the region and some 50 kilns have been registered in the first phase to assess their income from bricks sale and levy of sales tax and income tax in the light of their income,

It has been learnt that over 700 kilns are operating in Faisalabad division since long and owners of the kilns have not paid even a single penny as Income Tax and Sales Tax for the last 10 years despite issuance of notices.

The sales tax was assessed by the local FBR authorities and notices were sent to the kiln owners besides issuance of reminders but they did not pay the taxes. The FBR local authorities have further pointed-out that the kiln owners were themselves fixing the price of bricks without any prior permission from the authorities concerned and were hesitating to pay sales tax and income tax.

Meanwhile, President of Kiln Owners Association, Faisalabad region, Abdur Razzaq Bajwa, said the kiln owners were ready to pay sales tax and income tax to the government. He said President of the Pakistan Kiln Owners Association was holding meetings with the government and the FBR Chairman and urged the FBR authorities to wait for the outcome of the negotiations.

He was confident that a ’reasonable formula’ would be evolved in the meeting and urged the FBR authorities not to issue notices to kiln owners.

ACE ARREST TWO TEACHERS: Regional Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) headed by Assistant Director (investigation) Malik Tariq arrested two schoolteachers on charges of receiving bribe from two people on the pretext of arranging jobs for them.

The ACE authorities raided a Jaranwala school and detained Akhtar Ali and Zahir-ud-Din Babar who received bribe from candidates to recruit them as educators in education department.

The teachers were nabbed on the complaint of Aasia Bibi, the principal of the Government .Girls Higher chool, Jaranwala. The principal said the accused got millions of rupees from candidates.

TWO POULTRY FARMS RAIDED: A team of the revenue department headed by Imran Zafar, Deputy Director, Intelligence and Investigation raided two poultry farms and took into custody record, computers, a laptop and cheque books over not paying income tax and sales tax.

According to head of the raiding team, both the poultry farms of were registered with Income Tax and Sales Tax Department since long but they did not pay any tax so far.

UAF LAUNCHES E-FILING: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) has launched E-filing system at the campus in order to make administrative system the most vibrant and efficient to avoid undue delay.

UAF Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Ashraf stated this while administrating the oath to the newly elected Academic Staff Association(ASA) UAF.

Dr Muhammad Issa Khan was elected as President of ASA, Dr Muhammad Sagheer Vice President, Dr Muhammad Anjum Zia Secretary ASA, Dr Abdul Ghafoor Treasurer, and Dr Sajid Aqeel as Joint Secretary. Dr Aman Ullah Malik was the Election Commissioner of the ASA polls.

Outgoing President of ASA Dr Amer Jamil and outgoing Secretary Dr Aamer Maqsood also spoke on the occasion.

Dr Muhammad Ashraf said the varsity was making headway to find its space in top 500 universities in the world acclaimed rankings.

He said in the last eight months, the university had promoted 457 employees. He said all-out efforts were being made to address problems and issues of campus community at the earliest. He said a permanent office of ASA with state-of-the-art facilities to be provided soon. He said the university had taken up the matter of BPS and TTS staff to resolve as soon as soon under the merit and transparency policy.

He said the varsity has become the most attractive green campus in the country due to handwork of PO Estate Management Dr Qamar Bilal and his team.

He said for the clean campus, the community participation was vital for which teaching community must develop the sense of responsibility among the students. He said the varsity has decided to initiate one window operation for addressing research projects’ account matters.

Dr Muhammad Issa Khan said the ASA is working as liaison between the faculty and administration to redress their problems and to uplift the university at par with international standards.

He said the employees longstanding problems including promotions and other matters were being addressed by the Vice Chancellor without any discrimination. He hoped that the university pace of uplift will not only ensure quality education, but also produce skilled manpower and tangible research work.

Dr Amir Jamil said outgoing ASA had rendered a tremendous service for the institution. He said promotion matters, M Phil Allowance, cat eye replacement, synopsis number of copies, fee concession for university employees, pension of TTS faculty, UAF online attendance system, leave rules, HEC grievances committee, think tank and time scale promotions had been resolved due to proactive approach of administration.