PM Kakar urges business community to ‘share’, avoid tax evasion to transform nation
Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Wednesday urged the business community to “share their blessings” and “listen to each other” while advising them to avoid tax evasion for the nation’s collective good.
Speaking to the business community in Karachi, he said, “We will bring optimism and we will bring positive change. How? I assure you that we will do it together.
“We need to start by listening to each other. We will listen to you (traders) you listen to the state and the government,” he added.
The prime minister stated, “The blessings one gets are not for an individual but for shareholding — it is your choice whether you share in your family, home, neighbourhood, province, country or the subcontinent.”
He further highlighted that tax evasion occurred because the “dispensation of money is not used correctly” and that “people rationalise that their money is not for flamboyant use by others”. The premier added that this had “generated a vicious cycle in the country”.
Stating the government’s economic strategy, he said, “We plan on taxing people, and using those taxes to provide for the underprivileged. This is our aim. If we do not fulfil our aims, then we are to blame.”
Touching upon Karachi’s issues, PM Kakar acknowledged that the business community would have various concerns — specifying electricity and gas issues — and vowed that the government will try to solve those.
