THREAD: Former tax chief Shabbar Zaidi who many hoped would be the best bet to fix Pakistan’s tax system but left in less than a year made some very candid comments in a webinar /1

Pakistani businessmen have stashed $150 billion offshore after making those in profits through local businesses, claims Zaidi. They would make more returns on those in Pakistan but there is the fear factor of the unknown/2
As tax chief Zaidi went to business chamber KCCI, told them and I will ease any tax-related hurdles, just stop selling smuggled goods across Karachi, the president plainly refused the offer saying that’s not possible/3
“I faced resistance from the business community. They are not even 1% interested in tax reforms” said /4
“No politician has a listed company, except JKT. They don’t want documentation” /5
There was a businessperson who wanted to acquire a foreign company for $200 million but the deal didn’t go through since the money was not disclosed officially on the books /6
Highest evasion happens in tobacco industry with 30% cigarettes smuggled. I started a track-and-trace method to stop smuggling but the court shot it down: Shabbar Zaidi /7
Most smuggled products with massive gap between production and consumption: tobacco, sugar, battery, white goods, motorcycles, cycles and cement /8
In cigarette sales, 74% goes to the govt. When there is such high tax then there will be evasion: Zaidi /9
Income tax and custom office IT department strangely catch fire every 3-4 months. He gave an intelligence agency the task to secure the IT system /ends

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Full blown Schizophrenia if one wants to psychoanalyze BJP.
#doublebind where a parent keeps giving double messages to their confused children. They adore the parent for one thing and hate them for another.


How can BJP sustain itself with this kind of internal schism? In other words no samanjas or clarity of what they stand for?

Its exploding now. The madness.
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But not understanding that the same reasons why Godse was killed are the reasons why BJP leaders today hail Gandhi as Bapu or Mahatma. On #MartyrsDay
Very dangerous mind or #headgames being played out here. Our country is a large scale mental asylum with broken psyche.

Sanatana Dharma does not need more Nathuram Godses. We need more Shri Vidyaranyas and Adi Shankaras who would build Hindu Rajya through Raja and kshatriya Dharma.
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Instead he could have used his pourusham to garber a Sanatani movement to fight against INC and Gandhian ideology.

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