FBR Member Admin Shahid Jatoi, Chief Admin Iqbal Khan and Dr Yousfani have rendered strenuous efforts in getting PC-1 approved for Rs 500m infrastructure development
ISLAMABAD: With a special interest of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Member Admin Shahid Jatoi, the board has got approved PC-1 for Rs 500 million infrastructure development by the Central Development Working Party (CDWP).
“CDWP decided to rationalise the scope of work of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and in the final meeting the Planning Commission has approved the bifurcation of allocated amount,” a source in the FBR told Customs Today.
“As per proposals of the PC-I, offices of the Inland Revenue will be established at least 30 places in the country and approved amount will be spent on land acquisition as well as construction of offices,” he said, adding that land would be procured in those cities and towns where the FBR did not own land.
The source said that cities where the Inland Revenue offices would be established, included Gujrat, Sheikhupura, Pind Dadan Khan, Charsadda and Mandi Bahauddin.
“These all stations are very important because a huge amount of revenue is being collected from the taxpayers hailing from these cities and towns,” the source added.
“At the post CDWP final meeting, procurement of land at 15 stations with the cost of Rs 175 million has been approved and offices will be constructed on the procured land afterwards conditional to availability and provision of more funds from the government,” the source said. He added that remaining Rs 325 million would be spent on construction of offices of Inland Revenue in the cities and towns where the FBR owned land.
The source observed that Member Admin Shahid Hussain Jatoi, Chief Admin Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Dr Zubair Yousfani and his team had rendered strenuous and untiring efforts in sanitisation of the issue of infrastructure development to the concerned authorities, tantamount to getting the PC-1 approved.
“Because FBR has traditional experience that wherever, it established its own offices, they performed well on both the identification of new taxpayers as well as collection of higher amount of revenue,” the source said. He added that efficiency and performance of officials working at offices situated at rented buildings often remained compromised.
“Feeling this sensitivity, the above mentioned officers gird up their loins to get the existing infrastructure of FBR further improved and developed,” he added.
The USAID is also providing financial assistance to the FBR in infrastructure development and renovation. Certain offices of Inland Revenue and Customs at Directorate of Training Islamabad will be renovated under this aid.
