The Income Tax Policy Wing would work under the direct supervision of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Member Inland Revenue to deal with all matters relating to income tax policy and issuance of clarifications on the tax policy related issues.
Sources told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that the FBR has issued an office order to re-organise the Income Tax Wing and Sales Tax/Federal Excise Duty (FED) as Inland Revenue Wing for proper functioning of the different tax departments under the new organisational structure. In order to implement reorganisation as Inland Revenue at FBR (HQs) and in supersession of the previous orders, changes have been are notified with regard to various positions under Inland Revenue Wing, FBR said.
According to the FBR order, under the Chief IR (Income Tax Policy), the Secretary (IT) would deal with the all matters pertaining to income tax policy and clarifications on income tax policy.
The FBR order said that the position of the Chief (Income Tax Policy) has been re-designated as Chief-IR (Income Tax Policy); Chief (IDTP) as Chief-IR (Sales Tax/FED Policy); Chief (International Taxes) as Chief- IR (HQs); Chief (Revenue Budget) as Chief-IR-I; Chief (Domestic: Operations -North) as Chief-IR-II; Chief (Domestic Operations South) as Chief-IR-III; Secretary (Assessment) as Secretary-IR (General); Secretary (IT Judicial) as Secretary IR (Judicial); Secretary (Revenue Budget) as Secretary-IR (Revenue Budget); Secretary (Tax Reforms) as Secretary-IR (Co-ordination); Secretary (Income Tax Exemption) as Secretary IR (Exemption & Rules); Secretary ST&FE (Tariff & Services) as Secretary (IR-II) and the position of the Secretary Sales Tax (Monitoring) has been re-designated as Secretary (IR-III).
The following sections would work under Chief IR (HQs):
The IR Judicial section would deal with the ADR matters including income tax and sales tax. The FTO matters pertaining to income tax and sales tax. Legal matters and this section would also deal with the appeals and court cases and any other job assigned.The IR General Section would deal with the complaints of tax evasion, taxpayer's grievances, matters pertaining to rewards for detection of tax evasion, matters pertaining to PRAL/ Automation and e-filling and PAC/ DAC matters/ internal external audit matters, matters pertaining to reforms/ restructuring / re-organisation and any other job assigned.
The IR Co-ordination Section would deal with the co-ordination on income tax and sales tax matters, including taxpayers registration for income tax and sales tax, matters pertaining to income tax/sales tax/FED jurisdictions, parliament business, cabinet matters, internal & external audit, board in council, conferences, income tax reforms and any other job assigned.
The IR Revenue Budget would deal with the assignment of collection targets of income tax, sales tax and FED, monitoring of the revenue targets matters pertaining to income tax/ sales tax refunds authorisation of banks for collection of revenue and any other job assigned. The job distribution of the Policy Division (Income Tax and Sales Tax/ FED) shall be as under:
Under Chief ST/FED Policy position, the Secretary (ST and FED Budget) would deal with all budget and policy matters relating to dutiable/taxable goods and services; post budget clarifications and SROs; ST and FE law and procedure and interpretation thereof; Issuance of SROs/ General Orders/ Circulars/Clarifications etc; clarifications of goods and services Valuation of goods and tariff values and any other job assigned. The following sections would work under Chief IR (Income Tax Policy): The Secretary (IT) would deal with the all matters pertaining to income tax policy and clarifications on income tax policy. The Secretary (WHT) would deal with the all matters pertaining to withholding taxes.
The Secretary (Exemptions)/ (IT Rules) would deal with the all matters pertaining to income tax exemptions/second schedule and income tax rules and all matters pertaining to sales tax exemptions. The Secretary (International Taxes) would deal with the all matters pertaining to international taxes - income tax and sales tax; co-ordination / liaison with BOI, IMF, WB, IFC, DFID, OECD (including training) etc; matters
In order to rationalise the work flow, compliance, enforcement, monitoring and recovery of taxes ensuring facilitation for the taxpayers in their respective areas of responsibilities an equal number of RTOs/LTUs ie seven offices are placed under each Chief (Inland Revenue) of FBR. Each Chief (IR) would be assisted by Secretary and Second Secretary, and would have the relevant jurisdiction, office order added.
The Chief Inland Revenue-I would deal with the LTU, Islamabad, RTO, Islamabad, RTO, Rawalpindi, RTO, Peshawar, RTO, Abbotabad, RTO, Faisalabad and RTO, Sargodha The Chief Inland Revenue-II would have jurisdiction over the matters of LTU, Lahore, RTO, Lahore, RTO-II, Lahore, RTO, Sialkot, RTO Gujranwala, RTO, Multan and RTO, Bahawalpur. The Chief Inland Revenue-III would handle cases of the LTU, Karachi, RTO, Karachi, RTO-II, Karachi, RTO-III, Karachi, RTO, Hyderabad, RTO, Sukkur and RTO, Quetta, FBR stated.