This is one of the areas where PTI's performance has been even worse than previous Governments. Forget small/medium traders, what exactly is stopping them from going after big name shopping stores, malls, restaurants, pharmacies etc? Just in Pindi/Isb you have Savour foods, Tehzeeb, D Watson, Shaheen, Punjab/Madina Cash & Carry etc. These shops are openly declining to link their systems with FBR's POS. Go ahead and put lock these places and put their owners behind bars.
Banana republic mode m chal rahi hai tax collection & enforcement. Salaried class gets their taxes deducted at source--the total of which amounts perhaps less than what a single of these chains is liable to pay. And I am just talking about Pindi/Isb--the smallest of metro areas in Pakistan. Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Peshawar are way way higher than this.