The current FBR chairman Asim Ahmad was appointed by the PMLNled coalition government on April last year . The government has stepped up efforts to appoint a new head with several senior officers in the run for the top slot . Sources said that the names of five officers were under consideration by the finance ministry for the post of FBRs new head including two officers from the Inland Revenue Service IRS and three from the Customs Group CG .
Another proposal is to consider a potential candidate from the Pakistan Administrative Service PAS . FBR officials previously reacted strongly to the appointment of a junior officer from the tax department or a PAS officer as the tax agencys chairman .
A delay in appointing the top tax officer might lead to revenue bleeding on a daily basis, according to the FBR sources in the tax officials . The finance minister might give the lookafter charge to Nadeem Rizvi . The FBR has projected a revenue collection target of Rs.
tr for the current fiscal year of $2.3 billion . The tax collection target is expected to be a challenging target of $3.3 million in the current financial year of the previous fiscal year. This will be an increase of $4 million in this year’s revised collection of $1.
5 million in comparison to the revised collection in the previous financial year. The government is projecting an increase in $2 million in an increase to $3,000 in the last financial year, which would be the amount of $5.5 billion from the previous year.
In the last fiscal year, the government has projected an increase from $4.3million in this fiscal year to $2,000-a-year’.
