ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Member Human Resource Management (HRM) Rozi Khan Burki has said that the board has assigned him a task to introduce structural reforms in the tax collection system.
During an exclusive interview with Customs Today, Burki said: “I have proposed that the number of FBR members should be reduced and director generals should be placed under the members like the chief commissioners and chief collectors.
He said that all the FBR members should be upgraded from grade 21 to 22. It is important for better performance. Burki said: “We have very tight and transparent criteria for the training of officers abroad. We advertise on our website and choose the officers on merit.”
He said now everyone can avail the opportunity if he is eligible for the. “We never give priority to anyone and under our policy we have sent 60 officers for training abroad just in nine months,” he said.
He said right now 13 member are working in the FBR headquarters, 11 members are active and two members are inactive because they have no portfolios. He added that there are 26 director generals who are working under the FBR. “Does the FBR chairman has time to listen to them and observe their performances I think due to very heavy schedule of the chairman this is not possible for him, therefore, we suggested that all director generals should be under the members and they report to their member concerned and member will brief the chairman. If distribution of work would be like that, than the chairman will get some relief,” he said.
He said, “The chairman does not have sufficient time to supervise the Director General performance, therefore all Directors General are working openly and independently.” There is no regular contact and liaison between the members and DGs they are away to each other’s, usually DGs directly report to the chairman and members of the board also directly report to the chairman office so the situation is difficult for the chairman. He said director general was Grade 21 post while the chief commissioners and chief collectors are also Grade 21 posts, if chief commissioners and chief collectors can work under the members than Directors General should have no objection.
This time we are four members working in grade 22 including Member Taxpayer Audit Raana Seerat which is most senior than me and after me Member Strategic Planning Nasir Masroor and Yasmeen Rehman. He said that” M” is missing in HRM, because Administration wing is exercising our authority and doing our part of job, now I have decided to take up this matter in the meeting of Board in Council. I has also suggested and requested to the board that Administration wing is performing most of our duties, therefore the issue of job description and obligations should be resolved. We should do work accordingly to our official job description.
