Federal Board of Revenue has taken a strong exception to the news report captioned “Biggest tax scam surfaces in FBR” published in an English Daily which is, indeed, malicious in intent and sus-picious in content.
It has been claimed in the subject news story that a new tax scam has surfaced in FBR where tax authorities illegally paid over Rs.16 bil-lion in Sales Tax refunds to hundreds of big retailers in the past five months. Unfortunately, the informa-tion contained in the instant news story is laughably unfounded, misleading and far from facts. The mat-ter was brought to the notice of Chairman FBR/Secretary Revenue Division, Dr. Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed who ordered a inquiry into the mat-ter to ascertain as to why the changes made into the system were not effectively working.
In case of any technical glitch, it would be scruti-nized as to how this malfunction occurred and the fault would be rectified in the minimum possible time.
The Chairman, FBR has also instructed Member (Public Relations), FBR to arrange regular training sessions for FBR reporters in tax laws and proce-dures so as to help them avoid absurd sensational-ism in the future.
