Islamabad: Taking notice of the deliberate delay in tax cases, Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif suspended the Chief Commissioner Inland Revenue Islamabad and all his related officers and ordered an inquiry.
The Prime Minister had decided to personally oversee the process by issuing instructions for early and immediate implementation of FBR reforms as soon as he took over the government.
Cases worth hundreds of billions of government are currently being heard in the tax tribunals. The Prime Minister requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan to dispose of these cases at the earliest.
Recently, the Prime Minister took notice of the request of the FBR lawyer in Islamabad to delay the date of one such case in the court. The Prime Minister directed the concerned authorities to immediately investigate the incident.
The Prime Minister said that hundreds of billions of rupees of the national treasury are subject to legal disputes, I will not accept any kind of carelessness and negligence in this regard. As per the promise made to my people, I am personally supervising the reforms in the tax system, I have to work day and night to save every penny of the country and the nation and increase the revenue.
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