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Budget 2012-13: Imran suggests to tax the powerful
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has suggested that the powerful elite will have to to be taxed if the country is to be put on path to progress, Geo News reported.The PTI chief was addressing a press conference flanked by party's Policy and Planning Cell head, Jahangir Khan Tareen and Asad Umer giving his party's response to Budget 2012-13.
Giving his advice to the national finance managers on how to boost tax to GDP ratio, Imran said we can only survive if we bring the powerful people into the tax net.
'Pakistan has defaulted and the rulers are enjoying at the cost of the poor.'
Khan lashed out at the country's political leaders claiming that they had not been paying their taxes nor correctly declaring their assets.
Terming the politics of PML-N 'all drama' he said there are four CM Houses in the Punjab being run on the taxpayer money while the masses are suffering.
Calling for the audit of the defence budget, he said accounts of Pakistan Army be audited along with all the discretionary funds of the president, prime minister and chief ministers.
Imran Khan said that corruption was at an all time high in Pakistan and that the National Accountability Bureau should be converted into a sovereign institution.
He called upon the country's leaders to spend money collected in the form of taxes on masses, adding that leaders should drastically cut their expenses.
Courtesy www.geo.tv