Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Tuesday termed the launch of the Tax Asaan Scheme for traders a “paradigm shift”, adding that the government had to start somewhere in its efforts to widen the tax net. In an interview on Geo News programme ‘Capital Talk’, Aurangzeb said: “We kept the tax rate at 1pc for traders because we have to start somewhere. However, it is part of a broader framework to expand the tax net, and we are moving in the right direction.” The finance minister elaborated that he was working on a “new operating model” for tax collection with “no human intervention”.