ISLAMABAD: Out of hundreds of decisions in 2015, the Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) decided 16 cases carrying important directions for the Federal Board of Revenue to improve tax collecting administration.
A senior official of the FTO Secretariat said that the office has disposed of 16 cases with important directions and recommendations, adding that all such decisions are regularly been upload on the FTO website for taxpayers and departments information.
These decisions carried recommendations on resolving taxpayers complaints about NTN, department’s financial and administrative embezzlement, improving online usage for convenient tax paying and others.
Official records of the FTO showed that four of such decisions were given by FTO headquarters in the federal capital (Islamabad), eight of these cases were registered in Lahore and four at Karachi regional station.
FTO Abdur Rauf Chaudhry personally dealt two of the cases in the year. The cases which were dealt by the FTO personally included a sales tax case from Islamabad, and another customs tax case from Karachi region.
According to details, FTO office’s officers including Justice (r) M Nadir Khan, M Umar Farooq, M Ibrar Ahmed, Imtiaz Ahmad, M Yasin Tahir, M Munir Qureshi, M Sradar Irshad Shaheen, and M Afzal, N B Kyani were also appointed “dealing officers” in cases other than two which were dealt by the FTO during 2015.
