Legal Wing -FBR
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NEW INITIATIVES
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Supreme Court Judgments/Decisions/Orders
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- Compiled in four volumes, Supreme Court Judgments/ Decisions/ Orders
dispatched.
- Certain instructions for taking necessary action issued.
- Lists sent to the Supreme Court for fixation of appeals
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Perusal of Orders-in-Original/Appeal
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- Orders-in-Original/Appeal invariably received in the Board and
being perused for its legality and propriety.
- Detecting agency directed to file an Appeal.
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Expeditious Disposal of FTO Complaints:
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Circulation of President’s Decisions:
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- Important issues decided by the President in favor of the
department already circulated to the field formations to be quoted
in future references and representations.
- The same are being placed on FBR Website
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COMPUTER NETWORKING & CONNECTIVITY
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- Direct Taxes (Appeals) Software is already operational in Islamabad
(Appeals) office. The rollout of this software for other Appeals Offices
is in progress.
- Process for Indirect Taxes found similar to Direct Taxes, so same
software will be used, after slight modifications. The Pilot Site is
planned to be operational by 30.08.2007. The rollout of this software
for other Appeals Offices is expected by 30.09.2007.
- Computer Networking and Connectivity with all Appellate Tribunal
Benches/Hqrs and with Board is planned for early disposal of cases and
for other relevant matters.
- PRAL has already done some home work on the same which is being
expedited, if considered deem appropriate.
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CONNECTIVITY WITH FTO OFFICE
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- A software has been developed to keep record of:
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All FTO’s correspondence to and from FBR and field offices.
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Receipt of complaints from FTO’s office, dates of hearings,
filing of comments, receipt of FTO’s findings/decisions in FBR and
compliance report to FTO Office.
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Filling of review petitions to FTO and submission of
representations to the President of Pakistan against
findings/decisions of FTO, if any.
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This programme will provide compliance wise updated
status and due dates for compliance to any complaint filed with FTO.
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The programme will cater to FBR’s needs to avoid any
default/non compliance in FTO’s matters. The system is already
operational.
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APPEALS AND LITIGATION MANAGEMENT AND
REPORTING SYSTEM
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- This high level requirements document identifies scope of software,
required by FBR HRM & Administration wing to compile and manage data,
related to FBR (and related field offices) employees’ appeals and
litigation cases at High Courts and Supreme Court. Software will
initially be installed in FBR head office. Later, it is possible to
install it in different/multiple field offices.
- In field offices, software will be used for appeals related
activities and not for litigation cases. Each field office will have its
own copy of software.
- Field office software will populate central software database (at
FBR head office) as per decided frequency. The rollout of this software
to the field offices is expected by 30.06.2007.
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DESIGNING LEGAL FRAME WORK
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A similar, though not
identical, legal framework has already been
designed and incorporated for the
enforcement and collection functions of
Direct Taxes and Sales Tax by harmonizing
the relevant laws of both these taxes.
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CASE LAW SOFTWARE
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The case law software
already developed has been made available
for every body’s consumption by using
networking techniques for IT. |
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