ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue administration has taken strict measures regarding restrictions for FBR officials to seek leave for travelling abroad. The chances of FBR officials seeking to travel abroad will be conditional with their source of income and declared financial assets.
The determination of their financial assets will be made in accordance with the details provided by themselves in their returns. Those officials who fail to submit their assets details will not be able to travel abroad at all.
FBR Member Shahid Hussain Jatoi told Customs Today that after this decision the number of FBR officials seeking to travel abroad will be drastically reduced. Those still wanting to be spared the administration’s tough criteria are now looking for references for favouring them. But FBR administration has rejected all references and intercessions altogether.
According to sources it has recently been observed that certain officers have sought leave for travelling abroad with their families and stay there for enough time that they cannot afford as their declared financial assets do not allow them to.
In some cases the grant of leave was reduced to two weeks against the applied leave for four weeks.
A substantial number of FBR officials are unhappy with this decision. Some of them are reportedly using influence to reverse the decision.
