Federal Board of Revenue Member Inland Revenue (IR) North and FBR Member IR-South are directly working under the supervision of Senior Member Inland Revenue (Policy) as per new FBR's organisational structure. Sources told Business Recorder here on Saturday that the FBR's organisational structure at the headquarters has specified the chain of command to clearly define reporting system at the level of the FBR.
Under the chart, Senior Member Inland Revenue (Policy) is senior most member and above the FBR Member IR North and FBR Member IR-South. Both these members are under the Senior Member Inland Revenue (Policy) for reporting to the FBR Chairman. At present, FBR Member IR-North (Grade-21) has been given additional charge of FBR Member IR-South. Technically, post of FBR Member IR South is vacant. As far as reporting to FBR Chairman is concerned, FBR Member IR North and FBR Member South have to report through Senior Member Inland Revenue (Policy), sources said.
The FBR's organisational structure revealed that FBR Members are divided into three categories ie Line Members, Support Members and Functional Members. All these three categories of Members are under Secretary Revenue Division/FBR Chairman. Line Members are divided into categories of FBR Member Customs and FBR Senior Member Inland Revenue Policy. FBR Member IR North and FBR Member IR-South are under the FBR Senior Member Inland Revenue Policy.
The FBR's organisational structure further showed that the support members cover FBR Member Human Resource Management (HRM), FBR Member Legal and FBR Member Admn. The functional Members of the FBR included FBR Member Strategic Planning and Statistics, FBR Member Taxpayer's Audit, FBR Member Facilitation and Taxpayer Education, FBR Member Training, FBR Member Enforcement and FBR Member Accounting. Various Director Generals positions are also part of the FBR's top management team, sources added.