MEETING OF DIRECTOR GENERAL (BTB) WITH OFFICERS OF

REGIONAL TAX OFFICE HYDERABAD

On his country wide tour for holding meeting regarding Broadening of Tax Base with officers of

BTB, Mr. Rehmat Ullah Khan Wazir, Director General (BTB) FBR convened a meeting at Regional

Tax Office, Hyderabad on Monday January 14, 2015 at conference room of RTO.

Following participants attended said meeting:

1. Mr. Khawar Saeed Akhtar Chief Commissioner

2. Mr. Tauqeer Ahmed Memon Commissioner IR (BTB)

3. Mr. Farooq Azam Memon Commissioner IR (Withholding)

4. Mr. Manzor Jokhio Additional Commissioner IR

5. Mr. Abdul Rehman Rind Additional Commissioner (HQ)

6. Mr. Abdul Hafeez Nizamani Additional Commissioner (Withholding)

7. Mr. Aijaz Ahmed Khan Additional Commissioner (Withholding)

8. Mr. Pir Khalid Ahmed Additional Commissioner IR

9. Mr. Muhammad Shamim Murtaza Additional Commissioner (BTB)

10. Mr. Zaheer Uddin Baber Manager PRAL

Mr. Tauqeer Ahmed Memon formally started meeting and uttered few words of thanks and

welcome him for his coming to RTO Hyderabad on behalf of all the officers of RTO Hyderabad.

He was also presented conventional “Ajrak” and “Sindhi Topi” by the Chief Commissioner.

Following agenda was discussed:

To oversee the work of broadening of tax base done so far and to discuss strategy of

BTB for remaining months of the fiscal year

To check number of tax returns filed and identify non-filers as per computerized stock

register as well as to enforce returns in case of non-filers NTN holders

To determine actual taxpayers’ potential viz-a-viz present filers of income tax/sales tax

returns

To pursue recovery of demand in BTB cases

To analyze information received regarding property owners, vehicle owners, and

industrial/commercial connection holders

Progress in the notices issued from FBR and notices issued by RTOs at their own

initiatives

Status of orders passed u/s 122C and amount of demand raised

To devise mechanizing for service of unserved/returned notices u/s114 issued from FBR

For delineating progress in respect of BTB Mr. Muhammad Shamim Murtaza, Additional

Commissioner (BTBH) gave an exhaustive penetration which highlighted the following:

Regional Tax Office Hyderabad performance so far both in the case of FBR (HQ) issued

notices and RTO’s own initiative

Identification of Non-filers and mechanism for getting non-filers filed their returns of

income

An exhaustive analysis of third party information gathered by RTO Hyderabad and

utilization thereof

Procedure adopted for service of unserved/returned notices u/s 114

A brief of pilot project for getting business individuals in tax net

Describing some bottlenecks in BTB

After presentation Mr. Rehmat Ullah Khan Wazir, Director General (BTB) talked about the

strategy for getting more taxpayers into tax net, some measures should be taken for recovery

of demand created so far, how to utilize third party information effectively and strategy for

future BTB initiatives.

In the last, Mr. Khawar Saeed Akhtar Chief Commissioner RTO Hyderabad concluded the

discussion by highlighting specific achievements of RTO Hyderabad in respect of BTB and more

emphatically the problems being faced by RTO, Hyderabad in Broadening of Tax Base.

He also thanked Mr. Rehmat Ullah Wazir for sparing his precious time and coming to Regional

Tax Officer, Hyderabad.