KPRA Conducts Training Workshop for Public Sector Withholding Agents of Malakand

MALAKAND: To build tax culture in the province, increase tax compliance, and building capacity of its public sector withholding agents, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA) held a workshop for the officials of government departments of district Malakand.

USAID-funded Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Mobilization Activity assisted the KPRA in conducting the workshop. The participants were including officials of District Administration, Tehsil Municipal Administration Malakand, and Dergai, Educational Boards, Education Department, Local Government, University of Malakand, and District Accounts Office Malakand, according to an official statement issued on Tuesday.

KPRA Additional Collector Mardan and Malakand Mussarat Zaman in his welcome remarks thanked USAID-KPRM for facilitating KPRA in the workshop, and the participants for attending the workshop. He shed light on the history of sales tax on services and the mandate of KPRA. He assured complete support to the participants. “Our team is available for your support and we have to work together. We need your assistance in ensuring complete tax compliance to make more and more revenue for the government to be spent on public uplift schemes,” he said.

The additional collector KPRA awarded certificates to the participants of the training.
Deputy Collector Mardan and Malakand Ejaz Ali Khan and Assistant Collector Afaq Ali briefed the participants on the KP Sales Tax on Services Withholding Regulations 2020, in his presentation and explained the whole process of how to calculate, withhold sales tax from the service providers and how to submit their sales tax returns. – Bulletin Report