ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has issued directions on information systems usage during federal budget 2017-18, which will be announced on May 26.
The notification, issued on Wednesday, said that due to budge announcement on 26, restrictions on the access of servers/information systems running at FBR (HQ) will come in force from 4:00pm May 25 till the end of budget speech.
According to the restrictions, e-DOX: (a) Message and engagement features will be disabled and would not be accessible for internal users of FBR House.
(b) Users located in the FBR house premises would only be limited in routing/marking their correspondence in the Wings located within FBR House. However, external users such as RTOs/LTUs/MCCs would be able to mark their correspondence to the internal users/Wings of FBR.
(c) All training versions of the e-DOX system would be inaccessible during the budget days.
(d) Held desk for e-DOX will be closed
HRIS: (a) Access to the system for correction of disposition list, online application of leave and other facilities will be completely banned for field formations.
(b) Help desk for HRIS will be closed.
e-FBR Portal: (a) FBR e-Portal/Server will remain accessible for authorised users outside FBR (HQ) premises but no one within FBR (HQ) will be allowed to access FBR e-Portal during budget exercise.
STARR & Sales Tax System: (a) STARR & Sales Tax System/Server will remain inaccessible for FBR (HQ) users, however, authorised users/outside FBR (HQ) premises will be allowed to access the system/server.
PRAL & FBR Network: (a) While the local networks of PRAL (HQ)/CDA Block-II offices and FBR (HQ) will remain operational individually, transfer to any files/documents from FBR (HQ) Network to PRAL (HQ)/CDA Block-II offices Network and vice versa will be banned.
(b) Internet service in FBR (HQ) will remain unavailable till conclusion of budget speech by the finance minister.