Joint working group formed to block non-filers’ SIMs

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has constituted an 18-member joint working group (JWG) with three main telecom operators to continue the manual blockage of non-filers, effectively ending the deadlock over implementing the tax machinery’s effort to widen the tax base.

The constitution of the committee came in the wake of a meeting between Finance Min­ister Mohammad Auran­gzeb and representatives of telecom operators on May 12. However, one of the telecom operators, Zong, moved...