KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has warned tax officials of initiating disciplinary proceedings for issuing manual tax notices, including audit and assessment.
The FBR in an official communication sent to Large Taxpayers Offices (LTOs), Regional Tax Offices (RTOs), Corporate Tax Offices (CTOs) and Medium Taxpayers Office (MTO) that instances had been reported to the revenue board that field officers tend to issue manual notices and assessment orders.
These manual notices have created problems for the taxpayers as they preferred to file appeal and were also adversely affecting the efficiency of the field formations.
The FBR issued following instructions to the tax offices:
i. All statutory notices available in IRIS shall be issued electronically without any exception; manual issuance of notices, available in IRIS, is not allowed.
ii. All orders shall be issued electronically through IRIS; issuance of manual orders is not allowed.
iii. All Commissioners are requested to conduct periodic inspection to ensure that notices/orders are issued electronically.
Any divergence from instructions shall be viewed as inefficiency and shall entail disciplinary proceedings, the FBR said.
