Islamabad: Telecom companies have blocked more than 9 thousand SIMs of non-filers on the instructions of FBR.
A spokesperson of the Federal Bureau of Revenue says that a meeting was held with the telephone companies yesterday in which the FBR informed the mobile companies about the decision to ban SIMs. The government’s decision to block the mobile phone SIMs of non-filers has to be implemented in any case.
Earlier, the FBR started physical inspection of records at the offices of telecom companies that did not submit reports on blocking sims of non-filers, while imposing penalties on non-cooperating telecom companies and initiating prosecution. will Commissioner Inland Revenue Zone Four issued inspection orders under Section 175 of the Income Tax Ordinance.
Sources say that the FBR team inspected the office of a telecom company in Blue Area Islamabad on Wednesday, during which the officials of the company provided a compliance report about the blocked SIMs.
The company confirmed to the FBR inspection team from its system records that the names of non-filers were blocked and the messages sent to the non-filers.
According to officials, the FBR orders asked the principal officers of three telecom companies not to submit the report by May 21. The fourth telecom company has obtained an injunction from the court.
