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_: The Voluntary Tax Compliance Scheme (VTCS) should immediately exclude harsh condition of Section 122 (amendment of assessments) for traders to encourage non-filers to come into the tax net without apprehension of amendments to their declarations made voluntarily, lameel Akhtar Baig - Vice President Pakistan Tax Bar Association (PTBA) said that the traders have shown their resentment over the condition of invoking Section 122 as a hanging sword on their heads even after opting VTCS. The provision of amendment of assessments of traders has resulted in uncertain situation for the traders' community. Traders are also not clear whether they will be exempted from sales tax or not as this fact is not written anywhere in the whole text of VTCS. The government has invariably stated in its advertisements that the persons who will opt VTCS shall be exempt from sales tax whereas there is no clause relating to this exemption in the VTCS, he said.