{"id":5941,"date":"2025-09-11T21:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:36:13","slug":"supreme-court-questions-fbr-over-legal-and-fairness-issues-in-super-tax-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/11\/supreme-court-questions-fbr-over-legal-and-fairness-issues-in-super-tax-case","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court questions FBR over legal and fairness issues in Super Tax Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"640\"><strong data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"242\">Islamabad :<\/strong>The <strong data-start=\"249\" data-end=\"301\">Supreme Court of Pakistan\u2019s Constitutional Bench<\/strong> raised serious concerns on Wednesday regarding the <strong data-start=\"353\" data-end=\"389\">Federal Board of Revenue\u2019s (FBR)<\/strong> procedure for implementing the controversial <strong data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"448\">super tax<\/strong> on high-income sectors. During the hearing, the court questioned whether the government had engaged in any meaningful <strong data-start=\"567\" data-end=\"610\">consultation with relevant stakeholders<\/strong> prior to introducing the tax.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"835\">The bench pressed FBR officials to clarify the legal and procedural basis for the tax, which has faced criticism from the business community for its perceived lack of transparency and fairness.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"837\" data-end=\"1119\">Representing the FBR, the legal counsel argued that applying the super tax selectively to certain industries or groups would create an <strong data-start=\"972\" data-end=\"1018\">unconstitutional element of discrimination<\/strong>. She maintained that the tax needed to be broad-based to maintain equity within the taxation system.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1348\"><strong data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1136\">Dr. Ishtiaq<\/strong>, appearing as a key expert in the case, explained to the court that the super tax is structured across <strong data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1262\">various categories<\/strong>, each carrying a <strong data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1298\">different rate<\/strong>, based on income thresholds and business sectors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1350\" data-end=\"1491\">After detailed arguments, the court <strong data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1426\">postponed the hearing until tomorrow<\/strong>, signaling that more scrutiny is expected in the coming session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad :The Supreme Court of Pakistan\u2019s Constitutional Bench raised serious concerns on Wednesday regarding the Federal Board of Revenue\u2019s (FBR) procedure for implementing the controversial super tax on high-income sectors. During the hearing, the court questioned whether the government had engaged in any meaningful consultation with relevant stakeholders prior to introducing the tax. The bench &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3160,3161,3159,160,3158,2294],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-consultation-with-relevant-stakeholders","tag-dr-ishtiaq","tag-federal-board-of-revenues-fbr","tag-headline","tag-supreme-court-of-pakistans-constitutional-bench","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}