The government has appointed Khawar Khurshid Butt, BS-21 officer of Inland Revenue Service, as Member Inland Revenue (IR), Federal Board of Revenue with immediate effect. In this connection, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued a notification here on Wednesday.
According to the notification, after repatriation from Revenue Division vide Establishment Division notification dated January 27, 2011, Khawar Khurshid Butt BS-21 officer of Inland Revenue Service is transferred and posted as Member Inland Revenue (IR), FBR (Hq) Islamabad with immediate effect until further orders.
Under the new organisational structure of the FBR, the Board had abolished the slots of FBR Member Domestic Operations North and FBR Member Domestic Operations South whereas the post of FBR Member Direct Tax Policy and FBR Member Indirect Tax Policy were merged into a single post of FBR Member Inland Revenue.
All domestic taxes including income tax, sales tax and federal excise duty are covered under Inland Revenue. The FBR Member Inland Revenue would be responsible to handle all issues of income tax, sales tax and federal excise duty. Khawar Khurshid Butt is the most senior official of Grade-21 in the FBR. Besides, he worked on key positions in the FBR as well as field formations in the past. He remained as Official Spokesman of the FBR and Member Taxpayer Facilitation and Education (FATE) during 2008-2009. He also worked as Director General Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU), Islamabad.
He has rich experience of tax administration along with implementation of reforms. Being FBR Member IR, he would be responsible to handle both the policy as well as enforcement related issues of direct and indirect taxes in the field formations.
Khawar Khurshid Butt is known to be a strict disciplinarian and likely to bring improvement in the working of the FBR. Through effective strategy, it is expected that the compliance level would increase ultimately having positive impact on the overall revenue collection of the FBR. At the same time, his vast experience of enforcement on the field formations would also facilitate in increasing the number of income tax as well as sales tax return filers to broaden the tax-base.
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