ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has yet not responded to a notice served by internationally renowned constitutional lawyer Muhammad Azhar Siddique, raising queries about the working of Inland Revenue Service Officers Association’ (IRSOA) from within FBR premises.
The notice, addressed directly to the Chairman FBR, accuses the IRSOA of misrepresenting itself as an officially recognised body operating from the FBR Headquarters, Islamabad, without any lawful sanction or institutional authorization.
According to allegations levelled by Advocate Siddique, the IRSOA has been operating its so-called ‘Secretariat’ using the address ‘IRSOA Secretariat, FBR Headquarters, Islamabad’ on its official letterhead, a practice he describes as deliberately deceptive and calculated to create a false impression of governmental recognition and institutional legitimacy, it is alleged.
The association further lists [email protected] as its official contact email, which has been found to be non-functional and entirely non-responsive to communications directed at it.
The notices dispatched to the members of IRSOA at the FBR HQ address were returned by Pakistan Post with the endorsement that no such association exists at the stated location. This, the lawyer argues, confirms that the IRSOA is not merely unrecognized, he claimed.
The FBR, as a premier tax authority of Pakistan, cannot allow its name, address, and institutional credibility to be misappropriated by any entity, registered or unregistered, without consequence, Azhar Siddique stated.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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