Notification says Rashid has been appointed as chairman of Federal Board of Revenue
Mahnoor Ansar
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has appointed Rashid Mahmood Langrial of the Pakistan Administrative Services (PAS) to head the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
The grade-21 officer “is transferred and posted as Chairman, Federal Board of Revenue, under Section 10 of the Civil Servants Act, 1973, with immediate effect,” the notification, issued today by the Establishment Division from the Cabinet Secretariat, read.
Sources reported earlier today that the PAS officer’s name had been proposed to the prime minister for the top slot of the government body.
Langrial, an alumnus of Government College Lahore and Harvard Kennedy School from where he did his Master’s in Public Administration (International Development) (MPA-ID), has authored a book: “Story of the Fair Sex: Socioeconomic Conditions of Women Through Time”.
The sources had disclosed that the senior officers of the tax collecting body did not cooperate with Tiwana, who is considered close to Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.
The former FBR boss, who was appointed during the caretaker government, had to face criticism on the issue of digitisation and bifurcation between IRS and Customs groups, said the sources.
The sources close to the FBR chairman say that the tax machinery fetched Rs9,311 billion revenue during the last fiscal year by achieving 30% growth in revenues despite a difficult economic environment.
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