SIALKOT: The incumbents of Regional Tax Directorate has been suffering work overload due to vacant seats threatening revenue operations in the region.
As per details, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has already approved as many as 655 vacancies of different cadre officials at Regional Tax Office (RTO) Gujranwala but still no appointment witnessed.
On the other hand, about 375 employees have been working against total 465 seats resulting 90 seats lying vacant in Regional Tax office. Moreover, in sales tax department, about 130 employees were working against total sanctioned posts of 190 leaving 60 posts vacant.
A senior FBR officials briefed Customs Today that in Income Tax department, three posts of Commissioner Income Tax, one post of Additional Commissioner, four posts of Deputy Commissioner, 18 seats of inspectors, five seats each of inland revenue officer and steno typists, two seats each of office superintendent and DEO, 10 seats of upper division clerks, 17 seats of lower division clerks, 4 seats of drivers, 14 seats of Naib Qasid, one seat each of administrative officer, assistant director MIS, sanitary worker and gardener have been vacant since long and no appointment has yet been made despite of frequent requests to FBR.
Furthermore, In Sales Tax department, five seats of superintendent, 13 seats of deputy superintendent, eight posts of auditors, six seats of inspectors, four seats each of DEO and upper division clerk, three seats of lower division clerk, two seats of drivers and one seat each of accounts officer, assistant director MIS, office superintendent, steno typist, dispatch clerk, Naib Qasid and gardener have also been vacant.
Consequently, these vacant seats have been resulting into several difficulties in tax recovery and administrative machinery.
On the other hand, the senior officials at Regional Tax Directorate said that they had already sent the lists of the vacant posts to the FBR for the early recruitment on these vacant posts.
