KARACHI: The Pakistan Customs employees of grade 1-16 have expressed concern over the decision of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to deploy the employees of the Inland Revenue Department in Pakistan Customs, excise/sales tax and federal excise departments.
The appraisers and principal appraisers, while sharing their viewpoints with Customs Today, said that the transference by the Inland Revenue Services (IRS) in Pakistan Customs Services (PCS) will be unfair.
They termed it a conspiracy in order to affect the performance of Pakistan Customs, adding that the officials of IRS were not competent enough as compared to the officials of Pakistan Customs.
“The senior officials from grade 1 to 16 were handling the technical work of Pakistan Customs and transfers of IRS officials into Pakistan Customs Services will certainly affect the revenue collection,” they added.
They were of the view that the Customs employees from grade 1 to 16 were frustrated by this step of the FBR authorities.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Revenue Division of the FBR recently issued an office order regarding the rationalisation of sanctioned/working strength of staff (BS 1 to 16) of Inland Revenue Department and Pakistan Customs Department.
In this regard, the authorities concerns with the approval of Chairman FBR/Secretary Revenue Division have constituted a 6-member committee comprising Member (Admin) as Chairman, Chief Management, Chief Mgt. Customs, Chief Legal, Chief Customs F&C, Chief ITP-IR as members in order to finalise the options received from the employees of field formations.
The committee will formulate suitable recommendations to the competent authority. No appeal shall lie against the decision taken by the competent authority on recommendations of the committee.
