Federal Board of Revenue

Federal Board of Revenue
وفاقی ہیئت برائے محصولات
Department overview
Formed	July 1, 1950; 74 years ago
Preceding Department	Central Board of Revenue;
Type	Revenue collection
Jurisdiction	Pakistan
Headquarters	Islamabad, Pakistan
Employees	21,500 (2019)
Department executive	Dr Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmad, Chairman;
Website	www.fbr.gov.pk

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) (Template:Lang-ur), formerly known as Central Board of Revenue (CBR), is a federal law enforcement agency of Pakistan that investigates tax crimes, suspicious accumulation of wealth and money-laundering. FBR operates through Inspectors-IR that keep tax evaders under surveillance, assess taxable incomes and perform special tasks for FBR Headquarters. FBR performs role of collection of taxation in the country from all individuals and businesses.

FBR also collects intelligence on tax evasion and administers tax laws for the Government of Pakistan and acts as the central revenue collection agency of Pakistan.^[3]

History

Established as the Central Board of Revenue on 1 April 1924 through enactment of the "Central Board of Revenue Act, 1924". In 1944, the CBR was put under the Revenue Division with the Ministry of Finance until 1960, when on the recommendations of the "Administrative Reorganization Committee", the CBR was made into a division of the Ministry of Finance. In 1974, further changes were made to streamline the organization and its functions. In 1991, the CBR was once again reverted to its original status under the Revenue Division, however in January 1995, the Revenue Division was abolished and the CBR was once again reverted to a division of the Ministry of Finance. In 2007, the "FBR Act" was passed in July 2007, whereby the Central Board of Revenue was renamed to the present-day Federal Board of Revenue and for a third time placed again under the Revenue Division of the Ministry of Finance.

FBR primarily operates through its main collection arms comprising Regional Tax Offices (RTOs) and Large Taxpayer Units (LTUs) across the country.

Structure

Wings

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Information Technology

Accounting

RA&R

Directorates

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Directorate General of Transit Trade - Pakistan Customs

Directorate of Broadening of Tax Base (Special Directorate)

Directorate General of Intelligence & Investigation - Pakistan Customs

Directorate General of Internal Audit - Pakistan Customs

Directorate General of Input Output Coefficient Organization - Pakistan Customs

Directorate General of Reform & Automation - Pakistan Customs

Directorate of Post Clearance Audit - Pakistan Customs

Directorate General of Valuation - Pakistan Customs

Directorate General of Training & Research - Pakistan Customs

Directorate General of Intelligence & Investigation - Inland Revenue

Directorate general of Training and Research - Inland Revenue

Directorate of Withholding Tax - Inland Revenue

Directorate General of Internal Audit - Inland Revenue

Members of the Board

Asim Ahmad - (Chairman/Secretary Revenue Division)
- Member Admin/HR
Mr. Qaiser Iqbal - Member Inland Revenue Operations
Syed Muhammad Tariq Huda - Member Customs-Operations
Mr. Afaque Ahmed Qureshi - Member Inland Revenue Policy
Ms. Ambreen Iftikhar - Member Reforms & Modernization / FATE
Syed Ghulam Abbas Kazmi - Member Legal-IR
Mr. Mir Badshah Khan Wazir - Member Audit & Accounting
Mr. Ziauddin Wazir - Member Customs Wing
Ms. Zeba Hai Azhar - Member Legal & Accounting-Customs
Ms. Shahnaz Maqbool - Member
Mr. Asif Saeed Khan Lughmani - Member
Syed Maroof Gilani - Member
Mrs. Attiya Naheed Hakeem - Member
Mr. Muhammad Nadeem Arif - Member
Sardar Ali Khawaja - Member

Chairman/Chairperson CBR/FBR

The FBR Chairman is the executive forerunner of the board and is liable to formulate and enforce the fiscal policies of the country, decide on taxes and duties and ultimately act as a referent to the judicial appeals to the board. The chairman serves an essential job to operate in sync with the economic and trade ministers of the country as well as keep up with the prime minister of the state.

Incumbent

Name of Chairperson	Entered Office	Left Office
Victor Turner	14.08.1947	01.02.1950
Abdul Qadir	01.02.1950	25.02.1952
Mumtaz Hassan	25.02.1952	01.11.1958
H. A. Majid	01.11.1958	29.07.1960
M. Ayub	29.07.1960	19.06.1961
Mumtaz Mirza	19.06.1961	06.03.1963
M. M. Ahmed	06.03.1963	30.05.1966
Ghulam Ishaq Khan	31.05.1966	08.09.1970
A.G.N. Kazi	08.09.1970	10.10.1971
M. Zulfiqar	11.10.1971	17.11.1973
Riaz Ahmad	17.11.1973	30.09.1974
M. Zulfiqar	01.10.1974	12.11.1975
N.M. Qureshi	12.11.1975	14.12.1980
Fazlur Rahman Khan	14.12.1980	11.08.1985
I.A. Imtiazi	11.08.1985	20.08.1988
Syed Aitezazuddin Ahmed	20.08.1988	02.01.1989
Ghulam Yazdani Khan	22.01.1989	11.08.1990
Ahadullah Akmal	16.08.1990	24.07.1991
Sajjad Hasan	24.07.1991	03.10.1991
Alvi Abdul Rahim	13.07.1995	28.08.1996
Shamim Ahmed	28.08.1996	11.11.1996
Hafeezullah Ishaq	11.11.1996	02.01.1998
Moinuddin Khan	02.01.1998	06.11.1998
Mian Iqbal Farid	07.11.1998	06.11.1999
Riaz Hussain Naqvi	08.11.1999	02.07.2001
Riaz Ahmad Malik	03.07.2001	11.03.2004
M. Abdullah Yusuf	12.03.2004	23.07.2008
Sohail Ahmad	18.05.2009	18.03.2010
Salman Siddique	24.12.2010	21.01.2012
Mumtaz Haider Rizvi	21.01.2012	10.07.2012
Ali Arshad Hakeem	10.07.2012	09.04.2013
Ansar Javed	10.04.2013	30-06-2013
Tariq Bajwa	02.07.2013	17.11.2015
Nisar Muhammad Khan	17.11.2015	18.01.2017
Dr. Muhamad Irshad	19.01.2017	30.06.2017
Tariq Mahmood Pasha	04.07.2017	02.07.2018
Ms. Rukhsana Yasmin	02.07.2018	29.08.2018
Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan	29.08.2018	10.05.2019
Shabbar Zaidi	10.05.2019	06.01.2020
Nausheen Javaid Amjad (Acting Chairperson)	06.01.2020	08.04.2020
Nausheen Javaid Amjad	08.04.2020	07.07.2020
Muhammad Javed Ghani	07.07.2020	09.04.2021
Asim Ahmad^[7]	09.04.2021	24.08.2021
Dr Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmad^[8]	24.08.2021	27.04.2022
Asim Ahmad^[9]	27.04.2022	Incumbent

List of Regional Tax Offices across Pakistan^[10]

Sr.No	Designation	Current Chief Commissioner
1.	Chief Commissioner Large Taxpayers Office Islamabad	Malik Amjad Zubair Tiwana
2.	Chief Commissioner Large Taxpayers Office Lahore	Mr. Ahmad Shuja Khan
3.	Chief Commissioner Large Taxpayers Office Karachi	Dr. Shahid Iqbal Baloch
4.	Chief Commissioner Corporate Tax Office Karachi	Dr. Aftab Imam
5.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Islamabad	Ms. Aiysha Khalid
6.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Rawalpindi	Dr. Khalid Mahmood Lodhi
7.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office-I, Karachi	Mr. Tariq Mustafa Khan
8.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office-II, Karachi	Mr. Hyder Ali Dharejo
9.	Chief Commissioner Corporate Tax Office, Lahore^[11]	Ch. Muhammad Tarique
10.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office, Lahore	Mr. Nasir Iqbal
11.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Multan	Mr. Abid Raza Bodla
12.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Gujranwala	Mr. Karamatullah Khan Chaudhry
13.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Sukkur	Mr. Mohammad Farooq Azam Memon
14.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Faisalabad	Mr. Mehmood Hussain Jafari
15.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Peshawar	Mr. Khurshid Ahmad Khan Marwat
16.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Abbottabad	Mr. Sajid Nazir Malik
17.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Quetta	Mr. Shahid Mehmood Sheikh
18.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Sialkot	Ms. Sadia Sadaf Gillani
19.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Hyderabad	Dr. Tauqeer Ahmad Memon
20.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Bahawalpur	Dr. Muhammad Sarmad Qureshi
21.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Sargodha	Mr. Imtiaz Ali Solangi
22.	Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Sahiwal	Dr. Ahmad Shahab

Regional Tax Office in Sahiwal is the most recent addition to the tax machinery. It became operative on October 1, 2017.^[12]

References

^ Bhatti, Haseeb (26 September 2019). "Top court seeks FBR report on fake companies involved in tax fraud". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 27 September 2019. ... "How many employees does the FBR have?" he asked. Zaidi told him that the institution employs 21,500 people. ...'
^ "New FBR chairman". 27 August 2021.
^ "FBR exceeds first half tax collection target". The Express Tribune. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
^ "FBR WINGS". fbr.gov.pk. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
^ "Members". fbr.gov.pk. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
^ "IRS Training". Retrieved 19 August 2015.
^ "IT member Asim made new FBR chairman". 10 April 2021.
^ "FBR gets 6th head in three years as PM's aide on finance quits". Dawn. 25 August 2021.
^ "Asim Ahmad appointed FBR chairman again". Dawn. 27 April 2022.
^ FBR. "Contact Chief Commissioners/Director Generals/Other Head of Department of Field Offices". fbr.gov.pk. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
^ Webmaster (13 May 2017). "No surprise visits to business premises: FBR Chairman - PakObserver". PakObserver. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ "RTO Sahiwal becomes operative". The Nation. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

[1] Bhatti, Haseeb (26 September 2019). "Top court seeks FBR report on fake companies involved in tax fraud". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 27 September 2019. ... "How many employees does the FBR have?" he asked. Zaidi told him that the institution employs 21,500 people. ...'

[2] "New FBR chairman". 27 August 2021.

[3] "FBR exceeds first half tax collection target". The Express Tribune. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2022.

[Wings_of_FBR-4] "FBR WINGS". fbr.gov.pk. Retrieved 19 August 2015.

[5] "Members". fbr.gov.pk. Retrieved 19 August 2015.

[dgtrdt-6] "IRS Training". Retrieved 19 August 2015.

[7] "IT member Asim made new FBR chairman". 10 April 2021.

[8] "FBR gets 6th head in three years as PM's aide on finance quits". Dawn. 25 August 2021.

[9] "Asim Ahmad appointed FBR chairman again". Dawn. 27 April 2022.

[10] FBR. "Contact Chief Commissioners/Director Generals/Other Head of Department of Field Offices". fbr.gov.pk. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

[11] Webmaster (13 May 2017). "No surprise visits to business premises: FBR Chairman - PakObserver". PakObserver. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

[12] "RTO Sahiwal becomes operative". The Nation. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

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Headquarter: Pakistan Secretariat Minister of Finance: Ishaq Dar Finance Secretary: Kamran Afzal
Offices	Accountant General of Pakistan Auditor General of Pakistan Controller General of Accounts
Agencies	Competition Commission of Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue Inland Revenue Service Pakistan Customs Securities and Exchange Commission
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