Pakistan's Test and one-day captain Misbah-ul-Haq,along with some other leading players, will be investigated by the FederalBoard of Revenue (FBR) for filing incomplete tax returns.
A spokesman of the FBR today said there were complaints ofnon-payment of full taxes on total income earned by the players.
"The investigations will be carried out to confirm whetherthe complaints of non payment of taxes is correct," he said.
Pakistani Test players Umar Akmal, Azhar Ali and Taufeeq Umarand national Twenty20 captain Mohammed Hafeez will be investigated. The FBR hadearlier invited these cricketers to lodge their tax returns.
Complying with the FBR directives, the six players lodged theirreturns after obtaining their group income certificates from the PakistanCricket Board.
However the FBR has ascertained that the incomes and expenseswere more than what was mentioned in the received financial documents.
According to details in the financial years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011,Misbah had to pay a total tax of Rs 4.9 million, based on his declared income,however his total tax payment for the two years stood at Rs 2.96 million.
A source in the board said the Federal Department of IncomeTax had also talked about having tribunal hearings on the issue of non-paymentsof taxes by Misbah and other players.
The source also said that Umar Akmal's bank account had beenfrozen by the FBR citing non-payments of taxes worth Rs 7.8 million.
During the same financial years, opening batsman Imran Farhatpaid a total tax worth Rs 1.03 million, Hafeez paid Rs 2.7 million, Azhar AliRs 0.62 million and Umar paid Rs 1.195 million.
The PCB has also been at loggerheads with the FBR over taxpayment and exemption issues and the FBR lodged a case against them in court.