Imran Khan rejects tax amnesty scheme and announces to challenge it in court
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan on Friday rejected amnesty scheme for the non-taxpayers and announced to challenge it in the court.
The party chief Imran Khan termed the amnesty scheme a brazen attempt by Prime Minister Abbasi to save criminals.
“Why would PM seek to do this just 45 days before government term ends? And why just two weeks before budget? This is a tax on honest people – a slap in the face of honest taxpayers,” Imran said in his tweet.
PTI rejects yet another amnesty scheme which is one more brazen attempt by Abbasi to save criminals. Why would PM seek to do this just 45 days before govt term ends? & why just 2 weeks before budget? This is a tax on honest people - a slap on the face of honest taxpayers.— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 6, 2018
Imran Khan said that the amnesty scheme has been introduced to favor thieves. He has directed the leaders to raise the issue at every forum.
He further said that the questionable intent of the scheme was reflected in the confusion deliberately caused by PM Abbasi verbally referring to the scheme not being applicable to “politically exposed persons” while the document being circulated refers to “holders of public office and public servants”.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former finance minister Ishaq Dar and former president Asif Ali Zardari will be off the hook and will be able to take advantage of this scheme to benefit tax evaders, asset concealers, and money launderers.
While addressing a news conference in Hyderabad on Friday, Imran accused the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to have spent approximately 57 per cent of the budget allocated to Punjab only on Lahore.
The PTI chief further said that the Sharifs are ‘foolish’ as the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif keeps criticising the institutions, whereas CM Shehbaz keeps refuting him with his ‘praises for the institutions’.
He was referring to Shehbaz’s recent statement on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Qamar Javed Bajwa, in which the Punjab CM called him a professional and straightforward person.
Criticizing Asif Zardari
Imran Khan said the Zardari mafia was plundering the resources of Sindh."Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a great leader but we will not let Asif Ali Zardari remain alive politically," he declared, adding that Zardari's turn for ouster from the politics was on cards.
“Both brother (Zardari) and sister (Faryal) are making money from everywhere and people are scared of them,” he added.
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