ISLAMABAD: Board in Council Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has approved new guide line suggested by Member Administration Said Jatoi for performance allowances of officials. This radical step will help control corruption and improve the overall performance of institute.
According to the sources FBR officials have increased codel formality from one to two for performance allowance. Under codel formality FBR officials will have to submit their assets along with tax returns every year. Filing tax returns rule will be implemented upon eligible officers and those who will not abide by this codel formality, their performance allowance will be suspended for three months. Furthermore if any official gets late for five times in a month his performance allowance will be abandoned for that month, if any official is absent from his seat without the approval of his higher officials his performance allowance will be deducted for that day. Other than that all Members and Chiefs will be responsible for their sub ordinates, if minor penalty is imposed on a sub ordinate, performance allowance of his high up will be suspended for six months whereas in case of major penalty one year’s allowance of his high up will be suspended.
Upon the report of Supervisory officer, officers and staff will be de-notified for their poor performance or miss-conduct, but this notification will be only done if the reasons and the evidences provided in the report are proved correct. This new guideline will not be implemented upon official on contract.
Member Administration Shahid Hussain Jatoi Upon contact of Customs Today confirmed the approval of new guideline. In the light of new guidline not only the FBR officials will have to improve their performance but this will also result in increased revenue.
