ISLAMABAD: As the current financial year is going to end just in less than four months, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) needs to collect more than Rs 1,875 billion to achieve the revenue target.
Therefore, the FBR has decided to start serious efforts to collect revenue to meet tax shortfall. In this context, top brass of the FBR, including Minister of State for Revenue Haroon Akhtar, Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Member Operation Dr Muhammad Irshad, Member Customs Nasir Masroor Ahmed and Member Inland Revenue Rehmat Ullah Khan Wazir, will hold important meetings on Thursday and Friday in Karachi with business communities, chief commissioners and chief collectors.
In meetings with FBR officials team will review the performance of LTUs, RTOs and collectorates. Chief Commissioners Large Taxpayers Units, chief commissioners CRTO Karachi and chief collector Enforcement and Preventive Karachi has been asked for necessary arrangements.
According to the Federal Board of Revenue sources the team will leave Islamabad for Karachi on Wednesday (8th February) evening. The first meeting will be held on Thursday at OICCI Building with the members of oversees chambers and after that 2nd meeting will be held at Pakistan Business Council with the members of PBC. On Friday team will review the performance of LTUs and RTOs. The meeting will be held at LTU Karachi, while chief commissioners Inland Revenue, LTU-I/III and RTO –I/II/III of Karachi, RTO Hyderabad, Sukkur, Quetta and Directorate Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue. While in evening a meeting will be held at Model Customs Collectorate Karachi in which chief collectors Enforcement and collectors Preventive, Export-III, Hyderabad, Gwadar will participate.
