ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has imposed several restrictions to prevent unauthorized access to documents of budget 2019/2020 till June 11, 2019. This restriction included inactive internet connection and ban on transferring any file.
In an office order issued on Monday, the FBR said that internet connections, except for Chairman and Members FBR shall become inactive on June 10 and June 11, 2019 till conclusion of Budget Speech of the Finance Minister.
Internet connection of Coordinators/ Deputy Coordinators (if needed) will only be made active with prior approval of Chief Management/ Coordinator Budget.
The FBR said that due to budget announcement on June 11, 2019 restrictions on the access of servers/information system running at FBR HQ will come in force on June 10, 2019 from 8:00 am till the end of budget speech as per following details:
E-Dox:
a. Message and Engagement will be disabled and would not be accessible for the internal users of FBR House.
b. Users located in the FBR house premises would only be limited in routing/ marking their correspondence in the wings located within FBR House. However, external users such as Regional Tax Offices (RTOs), Large Taxpayers Units (LTUs) and Mode Customs Collectorates (MCCs) would be able to mark their correspondence to the internal user/Wing of FBR.
c. All training versions of the e-Dox system would be inaccessible during the budget days.
d. Held desk for e-Dox will be closed.
HRIS:
a. Access to the system for correction of disposition list, online application of leave and other facilities will be completely banned for field formations.
b. Help desk for HRIS will be closed.
e-FBR portal:
a. FBR e-portal/server will remain accessible for authorized users outside FBR HQ premises but no one within FBR HQ will be allowed to access FBR e-portal during budget exercise.
STARR & SALES TAX SYSTEMS:
a. STARR & Sales Tax System / Server will remain inaccessible for FBR HQ users, however, authorized users / outside FBR HQ premises will be allowed to access the system/server.
PRAL & FBR Network:
a. While the local networks of PRAL HQ/CDA Block II offices and FBR HQ will remain operational individually, transfer to any files/documents from FBR HQ Network to PRAL HQ/CDA Block II offices network and vice versa will be banned.
b. Internet services in FBR HQ will remain unavailable in FBR HQ till conclusion of budget speech by the finance minister.