Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Amjad Zubair Tiwana seeks early resignation from his office as he tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, as per sources.
According to government insider sources, Tiwana had requested the Prime Minister’s Secretariat to remove him from the FBR chief post and sent his resignation two days after waiting.
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The FBR chairman also consulted with more than two cabinet members before resigning from his post, said the sources, adding that the members asked Tiwana to resign.
According to sources, the FBR chairman — who is an Inland Revenue Service (IRS) officer in grade 21 — was going to retire from the service in February 2025.
Top official sources close to the PM’s office confirmed the media that the pace of reforms, including digitalization, in the FBR was not desirable.
The FBR officials said that the tax officers made all-out efforts to convince Tiwana for not sending his request to the government to relieve his charge but he refused.
Sources close to the FBR chairman say that the tax machinery fetched Rs9,311 billion in revenue during the last fiscal year by achieving 30% growth in revenues despite a difficult economic environment. Tiwana had to face criticism on the issue of digitization and bifurcation between IRS and Customs groups.
