ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Jehangir Tareen is the country’s top tax-paying parliamentarian with Rs53.67 million filed in tax returns over the past year, according to the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) fourth Parliamentarians’ Tax Directory 2016-17.
The report, which details the amount of taxes paid by 1,010 members of parliament over the previous fiscal year, shows that politicians paid a total of Rs3.36 trillion in taxes last year.
Baloch National Party-Awami’s Jehanzeb Jamaluddin filed just Rs4,000 in returns — the least amount of tax paid by a parliamentarian.
The Balochistan Assembly was the only one where all members filed their taxes with the FBR in 2016. A total of 18 parliamentarians did not file their tax returns last year.
PML-N
- Nawaz Sharif: Rs2,524,213
- Shahbaz Sharif: Rs9,531,060
- Ishaq Dar: Rs4,617,328
- Chaudhry Nisar: Rs1,192,618
- Khawaja Asif: Rs831,986
- Saad Rafique: Rs3,983,491
- Zahid Hamid: Rs402,406
- Pervez Rashid: Rs137,271
- Talal Chaudhry: Rs59,435
- Daniyal Aziz: Rs62,544
- Ahsan Iqbal: Rs82,440
- Hamza Shahbaz: Rs7,038,777
- Abid Sher Ali: Rs86,536
- Abdul Qadir Baloch: Rs113,002
- Shahid Khaqan Abbasi: Rs2,659,183
- Mushahidullah Khan: Rs11,313
- Ayaz Sadiq: Rs104,853
PTI
- Imran Khan: Rs159,609
- Jahangir Tareen: Rs53,677,426
- Pervez Khattak: Rs457,099
- Asad Umar: Rs6,368,864
- Arif Alvi: Rs201,554
- Shah Mehmood Qureshi: Rs1,862,414
- Shafqat Mehmood: Rs68,965
PPP
- Rehman Malik: Rs19,076
- Raza Rabbani: Rs492,201
- Khursheed Shah: Rs124,215
- Murad Ali Shah: Rs116,600
- Fehmida Mirza: Rs84,214
- Aitzaz Ahsan: Rs13,854,833
- Faryal Talpur: Rs1,903,571
- Azra Fazal Pechuho: Rs529,283
- Naveed Qamar: Rs50,181
- Shazia Marri: Rs34,941
JUI-F
- Fazlur Rehman: Rs50,181
- Talha Mehmood: Rs32,495,268
JI
- Sirajul Haq: Rs34,941
MQM
- Farooq Sattar: Rs39,758
- Syed Ali Raza Abidi: Rs319,530
AML
- Sheikh Rashid: Rs505,966
QWP
- Aftab Sherpao: Rs1,797,016
ANP
- Ghulam Ahmed Bilour: Rs34,941
PkMAP
- Mehmood Achakzai: Rs17,470
