Salaried class bearing burden of direct taxes

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Finance Hina Rabbani Khar told the upper house on Thursday that salaried class bears most of the burden of direct taxes in the country. She said there are 2,527,272 taxpayers in the country, adding, that total number of salaried class taxpayers is 1,817,666 and income tax deducted from their salaries is Rs27,376.6 million.