Federal Govt assigns more responsibilities to FBR chairman

FBR chairman
FBR chairman

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has assigned more responsibilities to the chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).

According to the notification, Chairman FBR Rashid Mahmood Langrial has been assigned the additional charge of Secretary Revenue and he will also perform these additional duties for three months or permanently.

According to the sources, it was necessary to give the responsibilities of Revenue Secretary to Chairman FBR for full powers and former Chairman Amjad Zubair also had the charge of Revenue Secretary as Chairman FBR.

It should be noted that the federal government had appointed Rashid Mahmood Langrial as the chairman of FBR yesterday, he was performing the duties of energy secretary while the former chairman of FBR has taken premature retirement.

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Earlier, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formed a task force for the digitalization of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).

According to the notification issued by the Prime Minister, the task force will be headed by Minister of State for Finance  & Revenue Ali Pervez Malik while Major General Syed Ali Raza will be the co-chairman of the task force.

The notification states that the members of the task force will include Ghazi Akhtar, Zaid Bashir, Aamir Malik, while Farid Zafar, Asif Pir, Tania Edros, Waqas-ul-Hassan and Gohar Marwat will also be part of the task force.