Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid Rs 2,524,213 tax while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan paid only Rs 159,609 tax during tax year 2016 compared to 2015 during which they had paid Rs 2,195,341 and Rs 76,244, respectively. According to Parliamentarians' tax directory for the year ended 30 June 2016 issued by The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), the tax paid by the Prime Minister increased by Rs 328,872 while Imran Khan's taxes enhanced by Rs 83365 in a year.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar paid Rs 4,617,328 during tax in 2016 compared to Rs 3,913,778 he paid in 2015 - an increase of Rs 703,550. Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani paid Rs 492,201 while National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq paid Rs 104, 853 taxes. The opposition leader in National Assembly Khursheed Shah paid Rs 124,215 tax and his counterpart in Senate Aitzaz Ahsan paid 13,854,833.

Awami Muslim League (AML) Chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed paid Rs 505,966 while Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Siraj-ul-Haq paid Rs 34,941 taxes during the last financial year. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman paid Rs 50,181 and Muttahida Qaumi Movement Chief Farooq Sattar paid Rs 39, 758 taxes. Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai paid Rs 17,470 and Qaumi Watan Party Chairman Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao paid 1,797,016 taxes. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Rs 1,192,618, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif Rs 831,986 and Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique paid Rs 3,983,491 taxes.

As per the tax payments of other federal cabinet members, Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer Hussain Rs 262,874, Minister for Information Broadcasting, Minister for Law Zahid Hamid Rs 402,406, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Rs 2, 659,183, Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique Rs 178,106, Minster for SAFRON Lieutenant General Abdul Qadir Baloch (retd) Rs 113,002, Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Ahsan Iqbal Rs 82,440, Minister for Kashmir & Gilgit-Baltistan Affairs Barjees Tahir Rs 109,036, Minister for National Food Security and Research Sakandar Hayyat Bosan paid Rs 869,813, Minister for Industries and Production Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi Rs 278,307, Minister for Human Rights Kamran Michael Rs 191,451, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmed Rs 1,098,486 and Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Pir Sadruddin Shah Rs 204,057 etc.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif paid Rs 9,531,060, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah Rs 116,600, Khyber Pakhthunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak Rs 813,869 and Balochistan Chief Minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri paid 1,411,000 taxes.

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