Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh during a post-budget press conference on Sunday said that the government had decided to extend the deadline for its Asset Declaration Scheme to July 3.
“There’s been a lot of interest in the Asset Declaration Scheme,” he said, adding that the deadline had been extended to banking office hours on July 3.
“We are giving people a final opportunity [to take advantage of the scheme] in case some people are still in the process or are facing difficulties wrapping it up,” he said.
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The deadline comes barely a day after a statement issued by the Federal Board of Revenue denied that there would an extension in the scheme.
Shaikh, while discussing the government’s budget strategy at the press conference in Islamabad, said it was part of its agenda to “make all things transparent. To utter nothing but truth in front of the public. That is precisely what is reflected in this budget.”
