KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has collected Rs2.08 trillion during first half (July – December) 2019/2020 as compared with Rs1.795 trillion in the corresponding half of the last fiscal year, showing a growth of 16 percent.

FBR chairman Syed Shabbar Zaidi in a tweet message said that the revenue body collected Rs2,080 billion up to December 31, 2019 posting 16 percent growth.

On the basis of above data, the FBR collected Rs463 billion during December 2019 as compared with Rs411 billion in the same month of the last year, posting 12.65 percent growth.