ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has directed all field formations to ensure the collection of revenue target set for the first quarter (July to September) of FY 2018-19 and informed that achieving the revenue target is the only facet for performance evaluation.
According to official sources, FBR has sent written directives to all large taxpayers units, regional tax offices and corporate regional tax officers to achieve the revenue target using all resources as it is the only altitude for performance evaluation of field formations, while FBR also informed in its directives that 9 field formations have failed to achieve the revenue target set for first two months of FY2018-19.
The board also stated that failing in the achieving revenue target will be considered as non-satisfactory performance of the department, sources added.
Sources further told that the board has also informed that a separate analysis report will be sent to those 9 field formations which have failed in achieving revenue target in which all the sectors will be highlighted where they failed and they will also be directed to how the revenue growth could be increased in those sectors. The analysis report will be a comparison of the previous year revenue growth with the current revenue collection.