[Pak-Media] FBR and its field formations are working at its full flow

 

Government of Pakistan

(Revenue Division)

Federal Board of Revenue

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PRESS RELEASE

 

FBR and its field formations are working at its full flow

to achieve the set targets

 

 

Islamabad, the 17^th June, 2011

 

 

It has been reported today in a section of the press that some FBR field officials at one or two locations have gone on strike to press their demands of up gradation of posts of Income Tax Inspectors to BS 16.

 

FBR headquarter management have contacted the reported field formations and have got it verified that no such officials are on strike. The official work is going normal as usual. The employees moreover, have also strongly refuted such news or rumors of strike and have reiterated their commitment to fulfill the assigned revenue targets through the hectic efforts during the month of June.

 

FBR management have further clarified that the issue of up gradation of posts is under active consideration and a high powered Committee comprising of senior Members of Federal Board of Revenue is deliberating on this issue and the result is expected shortly.

 

 

-Sd-

Riffat Shaheen Qazi

(Official Spokesperson, FBR)

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[Pak-Media] EU gives 40 million Euros for refugees and affected communities

 

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EU donates 40 million Euros for rehabilitation of Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas

 

Islamabad, June 17, 2011: The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today signed an agreement on the EU’s contribution of 40 million Euros in support to the Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas (RAHA) Programme in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

 

The RAHA programme was designed to promote regional stability and compensate for social, economic and environmental impacts on Pakistani communities by the presence of more than 3 million Afghans over the past three decades. It also aims at promoting peaceful co-existence between the local communities and the 1.7 million registered Afghans still living in Pakistan. This is a joint programme between the Government of Pakistan, the UN System, international donors and other implementing partners. UNDP and UNHCR will work in close partnership to take the programme forward.

This programme will support the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to bring the poor communities in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into the mainstream of development by improving access to, and reducing existing inequalities in resources, incomes and livelihood opportunities. The programme will cover 103 Union Councils in 12 districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

“We hope our support will empower community, village and union councils them through capacity-building interventions to identify and prioritise their own development needs and to articulate and negotiate with the relevant authorities and other development actors "said Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, EU Ambassador, Head of EU Delegation.

 

Mr Lars-Gunnar Wigemark and Mr Timo Pakkala, UNDP Resident Representative/UN Resident Coordinator signed the agreement on behalf of the EU and UNDP respectively. Present on the occasion was Mr Andris Piebalgs, European Union Commissioner for development currently on an official visit to Pakistan. A number of stakeholders and partners including Dr. Imran Zeb, Joint Secretary, States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON), Mr. Mohammed Asif, Joint Secretary, Economic Affairs Division of Pakistan and representatives of UN Agencies attended.

 

Mr Timo Pakkala thanked the European Union on behalf of the UN for their continuing support to human development in Pakistan and said “The contribution of the European Union to RAHA will be instrumental in creating social cohesion and providing sustainable development support to the disadvantaged and vulnerable communities”.

 

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Mehreen Saeed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Ayesha Babar

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[Pak-Media] FPCCI Press Release 17-6-2011

 

Dear Sir

 

                               Please find attached herewith Press Release at arrange to Publish the same in your esteemed News Paper & News Channal.

 

                                Thanking You.

 

MUHAMMAD ABID

     Executive Officer

FPCCI, Capital Office, Islamabad

Tel:- 051-2251891-93, Fax:- 051-2251894

Mob:0333-997-1855, 0308-569-8334

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[Pak-Media] FBR’S INITIATIVE TO BRING RESTAURANTS UNDER TAX NET

 

Facilitation & Taxpayer Education (FATE) Wing FEDERAL BOARD OF REVENUE *******

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                                                                                                              Islamabad: June 17, 2011 

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

FBR'S INITIATIVE TO BRING RESTAURANTS UNDER TAX NET

 

RTO, Rawalpindi and Islamabad has initiated action u/s 40(B) of the Sales Tax Act in respect of a number of restaurants situated in their jurisdiction as a campaign to realize maximum revenue from the sales tax. Needless to mention that high profile sales tax payers such as these restaurants, charge sales tax from customers but a number of them do not deposit the tax duly collected in the government treasury. By effective monitoring, sales tax revenue has increased considerably over the preceding years.

 

As a result of this initiative Peacock restaurant on Motorway (M-II) at Kalar Kahar has been charged Rs. 38 (M) in tax liability by the RTO, Rawalpindi after due process of law. The tax liability has also been upheld in 1^st appeal by commissioner IR (Appeals-III), Islamabad. The recovery proceedings are under way.

 

 

 

 

For further queries, contact

Syeda Naureen Zahra

Secretary (PR), FATE Wing, FBR

Ph:  051-9208407 / 0323-5228771

Fax: 051-9207172

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[Pak-Media] Press Release: 100th ILO annual Conference decides to bring an estimated 53 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide under the realm of labour standards

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100^th ILO annual Conference decides to bring an estimated 53 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide under the realm of labour standards

 

 

                GENEVA, (ILO News) – The government, worker and employer delegates at the 100^th annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Thursday, 16 June adopted a historic set of international standards aimed at improving the working conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.

                 "We are moving the standards system of the ILO into the informal economy for the first time, and this is a breakthrough of great significance," said Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General. "History is being made."

                 Conference delegates adopted the Convention on Domestic Workers (2011) by a vote of 396 to 16, with 63 abstentions and the accompanying Recommendation by a vote of 434 to 8, with 42 abstentions. The ILO is the only tripartite organization of the UN, and each of its 183 Member States is represented by two government delegates, and one employer and one worker delegate, with an independent vote.

                 The two standards will be the 189th Convention and the supplementing 201^st Recommendation adopted by the labour Organization since it was created in 1919. The Convention is an international treaty that is binding on Member States that ratify it, while the Recommendation provides more detailed guidance on how to apply the Convention.

                 The new ILO standards set out that domestic workers around the world who care for families and households, must have the same basic labour rights as those available to other workers: reasonable hours of work, weekly rest of at least 24 consecutive hours, a limit on in-kind payment, clear information on terms and conditions of employment, as well as respect for fundamental principles and rights at work including among others freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.

                 Recent ILO estimates based on national surveys and/or censuses of 117 countries place the number of domestic workers at a minimum of 53 million, but experts say there could be 100 million in the world, considering that this kind of work is often hidden and unregistered. In developing countries, they make up at least 4 to 12 per cent of wage employment. Around 83 per cent of these workers are women or girls and many are migrant workers.

                 The Convention defines domestic work as work performed in or for a household or households. While the new instruments cover all domestic workers, they provide for special measures to protect those workers who, because of their young age or nationality or live-in status, may be exposed to additional risks relative to their peers, among others.

                 According to ILO proceedings, the new Convention will come into force after two countries have ratified it.

                 "Bringing the domestic workers into the fold of our values is a strong move, for them and for all workers who aspire to decent work, but it also has strong implications for migration and of course for gender equality," Mr. Somavia said.

                 In the introductory text, the new Convention says that "domestic work continues to be undervalued and invisible and is mainly carried out by women and girls, many of whom are migrants or members of disadvantaged communities and who are particularly vulnerable to discrimination in respect of conditions of employment and work, and to other abuses of human rights."

                 Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, in her address to the Conference Committee, said that the deficit of decent work among domestic workers "can no longer be tolerated," adding that UN Women would support the process of ratification and application of the new ILO instruments.

                 "We need effective and binding standards to provide decent work to our domestic workers, a clear framework to guide governments, employers and workers," said Halimah Yacob, the Workers Vice-Chair from Singapore. She noted that the collective responsibility was to provide domestic workers with what they lacked most: recognition as workers; and respect and dignity as human beings.

                 Paul MacKay from New Zealand, the Employers Vice-Chair declared: "We all agree on the importance of bringing domestic work into the mainstream and responding to serious human rights concerns. All employers agree there are opportunities to do better by domestic workers and the households and families for whom they work".

                 "Social dialogue has found its reflection in the results achieved here," concluded the Chair of the Committee, Mr. H.L. Cacdac, Government delegate from the Philippines, when he closed the discussion.

                 "This is a truly major achievement," said Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO's Conditions of Work and Employment Programme, calling the new standards "robust, yet flexible." Ms. Tomei added that the new standards make clear that "domestic workers are neither servants nor 'members of the family', but workers. And after today they can no longer be considered second-class workers."

                 The adoption of the new standards is the result of a decision taken in March 2008 by the ILO Governing Body to place the elaboration of an instrument on the agenda of the Conference. In 2010, the Conference held its first discussion and decided to proceed with the drafting of a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation adopted today.

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For further details, please contact: Mr. Muhammad Saifullah Chaudhry Senior Program Officer International Labour Organization, Islamabad ; Tel # 051-2276456-8, Fax # 051-2279181-2 ; E-mail: msaif@ilo.org