Real-time access to information and database under Section 175A

Real-time access to information and database under Section 175A: The Finance Act has inserted a new sub section 175 A with a view to broaden tax base and documenting the economy.

Same is reproduced as under:

Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, including but not limited to the National Database and Registration Authority Ordinance, 2000 (Ordinance VIII of 2000), and the Emigration Ordinance, 1979(Ordinance XVIII of 1979), arrangements shall be made to provide real-time access of information and database to the Board in the prescribed form and manner by-

➢ the National Database and Registration Authority with respect to information pertaining to National Identity Card, Pakistan Origin Card, Overseas Identity Card, Alien Registration Card, and other particulars contained in the Citizen Database;

➢ the Federal Investigation Agency and the Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment with respect of international travel.;

➢ the Islamabad Capital Territory and provincial and local land record and development authorities with respect to record-of-rights including digitized edition of record-of-rights, periodic record, record of mutations and report of acquisition of rights;

➢ the Islamabad Capital Territory and provincial Excise and Taxation Departments with respect to information regarding registration of vehicles, transfer of ownership and other associated record;

➢ All electricity suppliers and gas transmission and distribution companies with respect to particulars of a consumer, the units consumed and the amount of bill charged or paid:

o Provided that where the connection is shared or is used by a person other than the owner, the name and CNIC of the owner and the user shall also be furnished:

o Provided further that all electricity suppliers and gas transmission and distribution companies shall make arrangements by the 1st day of January, 2021for allowing consumers to update the ratio of sharing of a connection or the particulars of users, as the case may be; and