ISLAMABAD: Office of the Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has rejected 330 complaints during 2015 carrying objections against office bearers of tax collecting institution, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
Statistics showed that 20.5 percent of the total complaints, 1,509, were rejected by the FTO which was lower than the numbers of rejected complaints in 2014.
During 2014, at least 305 complaints were rejected by the FTO which remained 19.7 percent. In 2012, 235 (12.7 percent) complaints were rejected; 183 or 11.5 percent complaints were rejected in 2012; 195 or 13.9 percent in 2011; 242 or 16.8 percent in 2010 and 200 or 23.8 percent complaints were rejected in 2009.
Rejected of these complaints were made at Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar and others stations of FTO.
According to FTO officials, these complaints were rejected for filing irrelevant matter before the FTO, or of false submission, or were based on misinterpretation of tax collecting regulations.
