KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to launch a comprehensive anti-corruption drive in Inland Revenue and Pakistan Customs. In this regard, the board has collected details of assets of all the FBR employees.
According to the source, in order to strengthen the management unit, the FBR will be identifying potential processes within the FBR that could reinforce its anti-corruption structures, including in the Directorate General of Internal Audit (DGIA).
Next steps in this agenda includes using the DGIA reports regarding tax fraud for identification of complicit tax officials and developing key performance indicators, a code of conduct, transparent criteria for integrity management, and ethics training. In addition, the FBR has started monitoring the penalties imposed by its field officers.
Pakistani authorities are also continue working towards simplifying tax laws and procedures and better coordinate with provinces to consolidate collection of provincial taxes and fees to make it easier for taxpayers to meet their obligations and at the same time eliminate opportunities for corruption by limiting the discretion of tax officials.
The comprehensive anti-corruption drive in Inland Revenue and Pakistan Customs was decided after the FIA Anti-corruption circle Karachi that lodged an FIR accusing Ahmed Mujtaba Memon Collector Hyderabad on corruption and various other violations in rules and laws.
