- The integrity of FBR officials included facilitation of travel.
- Vehicles only intended for the 18th and 19th year front -line officers.
- The tax authority ensures the installation of trackers to avoid improper use.
Islamabad: defending its decision to obtain more than 1,000 vehicles, the Federal Bureau of Return (FBR) cited access and mobility behind its move while ensuring improper use of vehicles.
In his letter addressed to the Senate Committee on Finance and Revenues, the FBR said that to extend the tax net, there was a disaster need to be physically located through investigations and requests for information on site ” .
The letter intervenes in the context of the announcement of the tax authority to acquire 1,010 vehicles at an estimated cost of 6 billion rupees.
The purchase was to be made in two phases, the FBR making a prior payment of RS3 billion to cover the first batch of 500 vehicles. The remaining payment would be made after delivery of the initial lot.
Vehicle delivery is scheduled between January and May 2025.
In the first phase, 75 vehicles will be delivered in January, followed by 200 in February and 225 in March. The second phase will see the delivery of 250 vehicles in April and final 260 in May.
The announcement had attracted the anger of the Senate organization which had written to the Minister of Finance Muhammad aurangzeb the exhortant to suspend the purchases of vehicles citing “considerable doubts about the transparency and the integrity of the process”.
The Minister of Finance ensuring transparency, the president of the FBR, Rashid Langrial, had described the markets “necessary for the operations of the ministry”.
The letter of the tax organization to the Senate committee underlines the need to identify non-sequences and implement effective application mechanisms to guarantee the conformity of eligible taxpayers, which, according to him, was not Possible without visiting markets and territories due to the cash economy.
Stressing that he must work on a war footing to achieve his target of RS1,3 Billion taxes which would only be possible if his officials have the mobility necessary to cover the domain, the letter also deplored that he Faced with an important challenge linked to not registration and fraudulent inscriptions.
“Out of approximately 260,000 manufacturers who should pay the sales tax, only 42,000 are recorded with the FBR and even those registered are not fully compliant.”
Noting that factories were located in distant areas and that hundreds of civil servants have been deployed for monitoring sugar production in places that lacked public transport, the FBR recalled that the previous practice of asking the owners of sugar
“The mobility arrangement is entirely intended for FBR Drive Enfacure (…) The specifications of the mobility provision have been maintained at the minimum level of specifications,” said tax authority, adding that no country in the World had not managed to reform tax reforms without machinery tax.
The letter also drew attention to the low cost of the FBR collection which was held at Rs1 spent for each RS200 won.
Developing the measures taken to ensure additional tax collection compared to vehicles purchased, the FBR has assured that vehicles would only be provided to field units and leading workers from the years 18 and 19.
Vehicles, which would be operational, will be attached to tax units rather than designated officers. In addition, appropriate brand measures have been proposed, including stickers on the two doors and the windshield, associated with trackers – aimed at avoiding improper use and allowing a central monitoring mechanism.
The tax body also declared that its public procurement had in accordance with rule 42 (c) (VII) of rule 42 (c) (VII) of the public-aging manufacturers or their authorized agents at the price of the manufacturer.