Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Adviser on Finance and Revenue Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has stressed on the need to establish a link between NADRA and FBR for data sharing and data analytics.
He was chairing the second meeting of the FBR Policy Board in Islamabad on Thursday.
He created a subgroup of members to point out and sort the difficulties that are hindering the progress on the data sharing issue between the two organizations.
The Adviser took a special notice of the difficulties the traders are facing due to stoppage of containers at the Torkham Border. Member Customs informed that necessary steps have been taken and the issue will be resolved within the coming weeks.
The Chairman FBR briefed the Adviser on the efforts the institute has been making to improve the abilities and expertise of its human resource and on the progress of the automation drive of FBR, Customs.