Incident on issuance of circular against lawyer: SCBAP asks FBR Commissioner (Appeals-II) Lahore to explain facts

Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBAP) has asked the Federal Board of Revenue's (FBR) Commissioner (Appeals-II) Lahore to explain facts and circumstances of the incident on issuance of circular against a lawyer and provide material if any.
Sources told Business Recorder here on Thursday that the SCBAP had issued a letter to the Commissioner Inland Revenue (Appeals-II) Lahore Syed Ashraf Ahmed Ali, Advocate High Court Waheed Shahzad Butt, while copies had been endorsed to the Chairman FBR, Islamabad and Momim Sultan, General Secretary LTBA.
The SCBAP has also referred to the letter of Lahore Tax Bar Association (LTBA) in this particular case.
Earlier, the FBR had directed Commissioner Inland Revenue (Appeals-II) Lahore to file a prosecution suit against the said advocate, and his client if both have insulted Commissioner or caused any interruption, while Commissioner was hearing a judicial proceeding under the Sales Tax Act, 1990. The FBR had also issued instructions to all Chief Commissioners Appeals and Commissioners Inland Revenue of Large Taxpayer Units and Regional Tax Offices on the alleged non-professional and unethical behaviour of the tax lawyer and his client CEO of a company. In February 2014, the LTBA has written a letter to the FBR Chairman to issue contradiction of a circular/letter issued against a member of the LTBA on the subject of non-professional and unethical behavior of a tax lawyer.
It is further learnt that LTBA has said that on the application/request of member the LTBA has taken serious notice of the utterly false and scandalous letter/circular issued by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) vide C.No 3(21)(L-DT)/15 dated February 12, 2015, apparent contents of the said circular are shocking and distrustful.
The LTBA issued the intimation/letter, in response to false, ill-founded, unsubstantiated and malicious remarks and insinuations made in the letter dated February 12, (the Circular) addressed to CIR Appeals II, Lahore and circulated to all Pakistan tax employees/functionaries (CCIR & CIR-Appeals), the LHCBA said.
The FBR hereby granted an opportunity through the letter/notice to publish a contradiction and an apology for the malicious, fallacious and scandalous circular as the allegation are totally vague that there are "frivolous, immaterial and baseless applications" (as mentioned in the circular) filed by the respectable Bar Member personally. Such a contradiction and apology must appear within ten (10) days of the receipt of the instant letter/notice failing which the respectable LTBA Member as well as this august forum of LTBA may commence, simultaneously or successively, legal action for civil and criminal remedies against concerned officials, the LTBA added.