The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has prepared a list of around 10,000 staffs from grade 1 to 16 who would be transferred in phase wise manner across the country. In the first phase, the Board has transferred around 3100 employees of grade 9 to 16 from Inland Revenue Service (IRS) across the country. In the second phase, the staffs of Customs Group would be transferred across the country in the next few days.
Sources confirmed to Business Recorder that "the FBR has prepared a list of 10,000 staff that will be transferred within current month". The government also decided to transfer officers of grade 17 and above but not in such massive scale. The FBR has transferred and posted 3,100 Inland Revenue officers so far up to grade-16 across the country under massive reshuffling.
The Board has made these transfers at Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Quetta, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Multan and other cities. Officials of BS 9-14 working in IRS (Karachi Station), officials BS 9-15 (Lahore Station), officials (BS 9-15) working in IRS, Assistant Directors (Audit) (BS-18), Senior Auditors (BS-16), BS-16 employees working in IRS, BS-16 employees working in IRS (Lahore Station) and BS-16 employees working in IRS(Karachi Station) have been transferred and posted.