Air Link Communication (NTN 3612447) and Advance Telecom (NTN 2848905) remained some of the top taxpayers within the category of Association of Persons (AoPs) for the Tax Year 2017. According to the latest Tax Directory for all taxpayers issued by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), the directory has been tabulated from returns filed manually and electronically (till 21-Feb-2019). Manually filed Returns have been entered into the system. There may be some discrepancies at the level of filing or data entry. Moreover, a considerable number of manually filed Returns could not be entered into the system despite best efforts due to missing mandatory identifiers on the Returns.

Among other top AoPs, list revealed that Advance Telecom (NTN 2848905) paid Rs 559,323,749 tax; Mashal Construction Company NTN (3646424) paid tax of Rs 139,034,675; Ms Bhittai Builders NTN (4250127) Rs 150,548,308; Muhammad Ramzan & Company NTN (3684971) Rs 296,511,120; Niaz Muhammad Khan And Brothers NTN (1462327) Rs 524,816,285; NPI Construction & Engineering NTN (2531360) Rs 139,377,941; and Agha Steel Industries NTN (3922640) paid tax of Rs 381,909,593 during the tax year 2017.

Other leading taxpayers within the category of AoPs included Air Link Communication NTN (3612447) with tax payment of Rs 571,048,484; Al Kabir Construction NTN (3385643) Company Rs 102,780,675; CGC-RSL-SFETIC NTN (7450728) (Joint Venture) Rs159,314,165; CGGC-AM Associates-JV NTN (4376235) Rs 147,582,262; CGGC-GRCJV (China Gezhouba Group Company And Ghulam Rasool & Co Joint Venture) NTN (4360999) Rs 188,998,968; CGGC-GRCJV (China Gezhouba Group Company And Ghulam Rasool & Co Joint Venture-M4) NTN (7366572) Rs 158,220,614; Chawla International NTN (1196524) Rs 306,322,036; CR20G-ZKB KLM Joint Venture NTN (7186511) Rs 1,448,610,559; ELCON Associates NTN (2631914) Rs 106,517,481; EY Ford Rhodes NTN(1452191) Rs 268,174,644; Ghazali Construction Company NTN (4442178) Rs 162,872,890; Gourmet Foods NTN (3218709) Rs 223,671,024; Highways Construction NTN (678260) Rs 327,114,522; M/s Qalander Bux Abro & Company NTN (4411364) Rs 138,356,993; M/s Umer Jan & Co (Jov) M/S Xuchang Guangli Highway NTN (7255668) Rs 104,306,846; M/s Fazal & Brothers, Builders & Developers & Contractor NTN (3646777) Rs137,777,973; LIMAK JV ZKB NTN (3134063) Rs 1,126,354,433; Manzoor Hussain & Brothers NTN (912583) Rs 101,407,187 and Maqbool-Zarghoon JV NTN (7250344) Rs 141,498,057.

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