ISLAMABAD: Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue ruled in a judgment that Wafaqi Tax Mohtasibs can take notice of any maladministration in any wing of Federal Board of Revenue and suggest suitable, strong measures to curtail maladministration.
Sources told Customs Today that Appellate in its verdict said that the appellant may file a complaint before the Mohtasib’s Federal Tax Ombudsman. The forum has several attributes of a court in many aspects of its powers. It can also move in a matter promptly whenever so needed. At the same time it does not suffer from some of the handicaps, due to the technicalities of procedural nature, which operate as impediments or thwart like actions by the courts. It can provide an effective and adequate remedy to the appellant against the alleged maladministration.
