The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has fully implemented the criteria laid down by the Establishment Division (ED) for payment of special allowance to its employees in the board and the field formations.
A senior tax official told Business Recorder on Friday that the first three phases of the implementation of reforms has been completed and the employees would be able to benefit from special allowance (double pay) announced by the Prime Minister based on the criteria set by the Establishment Division ie: Firstly, the special allowance is attached to specific posts, pre-determined by Cabinet Committee on Federal Revenues (CCFRs) on the basis of special requirements of the job and not for the organisation as a whole.
Secondly, the CBR personnel will be posted on such assignments strictly on merit, following a formally articulated powers of transparent and competitive selection, invariably stating that such postings do not create any permanent rights for the selected personnel.
Thirdly, the performance of personnel posted to such positions will be periodically and properly reviewed and continuance or otherwise in such position determined by such evaluation.
In the 4th phase, the Medium Taxpayers Units (MTUs), Sales Tax Collectorates and Income Tax Commissionerates will be merged into Regional Tax Offices, which are going to be launched from September 2006 and completed by June 2007.
The employees of restructured units of RTOs covering all field units will also be eligible for special allowance (double pay) at the appropriate time. Similarly, the employees of Model Customs Collectorate (MCCs), including all the Customs Collectorates, would also be eligible for this allowance once the restructured units are operational.
It may be pointed out that the CBR has undertaken a process of restructuring based on workload analysis and functional organisation concepts over a period covering November 2005 to July 2006.
In this process, the following units of CBR have gone through a drastic restructuring process: Large Taxpayers Units (LTU), Karachi/ Lahore were established under the Phase-I completed in 2003-04; Medium Taxpayers Units (MTU), Karachi/Lahore/ Peshawar/Faisalabad/Rawalpindi, Phase-II, (2004-05); Board Headquarters, Directorate General of Training (Direct Taxes), Directorate General of Training (Indirect Taxes), Directorate General of Inspection & Audit (Direct Taxes), Directorate General of Inspection & Audit (Indirect Taxes), Directorate General of Customs Valuation & PCA, Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation Customs, Sales Tax and Federal Excise), Phase-III completed (August, 2006) and the Regional Tax Offices (RTOs), Model Customs Collectorates (MCCs) and Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU), Islamabad would be completed under the Phase-IV by September 2006-June 2007.
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