{"id":74741,"date":"2018-08-06T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74741"},"modified":"2018-08-06T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:21:56","slug":"fbr-launches-investigation-against-citizens-holding-immovable-property-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74741","title":{"rendered":"FBR launches investigation against citizens holding immovable property in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, Aug. 6 (TNS): An investigation against Pakistanis owning immovable property in the United Kingdom (UK) has begun, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairperson Rukhsana Yasmin said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation is being conducted against those individuals who did not avail the government\u2019s tax amnesty scheme,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received information of those Pakistanis who illegally own property in the United Kingdom. The data was received from UK Tax Authorities,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Yasmin expressed disappointment at the response to the amnesty scheme last month.<\/p>\n<p>She made the remarks during an address to FBR employees at the Tax House where she said that residents from Karachi and Lahore had availed the scheme but Central and South Punjab\u2019s response was disappointing with only 55,000 citizens in total availing the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The tax amnesty scheme announced by the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) government earlier this year provided citizens the opportunity to file local and foreign assets without repercussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, Aug. 6 (TNS): An investigation against Pakistanis owning immovable property in the United Kingdom (UK) has begun, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairperson Rukhsana Yasmin said on Monday. \u201cThe investigation is being conducted against those individuals who did not avail the government\u2019s tax amnesty scheme,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have received information of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74742,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74741\/revisions\/74742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}