ISLAMABAD: Amid existing maladministration on part of tax collecting departments, around 1,195 complainants have been submitted before the Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) by September 30, 2015.
According to details, 345 General Sales Tax (GST) complaints, 139 Customs Duty complaints, 710 Income Tax and only one complaint of Federal Excise Duty (FED) were filed at the FTO Secretariat and regional offices across the country.
A senior FTO official said that these figures did not included pending complaints filed with the FTO in the preceding years.
He said that fresh and old complaints were being processed. FTO was trying to bring earliest possible relief to taxpayers who had approached FTO for relief.