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ISLAMABAD:Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Amjad Zubair Tiwana tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, sources said on Wednesday.
According to insiders, Tiwana had requested the Prime Minister’s Secretariat to remove him from the FBR chief post and sent his resignation two days after waiting.
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.
The sources said that Tiwana had met Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and PM’s close aide on Establishment Division Ahad Cheema and informed him verbally that he could not continue to head the FBR.
Senior officers of the tax collecting body did not cooperate with Tiwana.More than 21 officers in the FBR who are senior that the chairman.
Tiwana, who is considered close to Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, was appointed during the caretaker government, said the sources.
FBR chairman — who is an Inland Revenue Service (IRS) officer in grade 21 — was going to retire from the service in February 2025.
Sources confirmed that the pace of reforms, including digitalisation, in the FBR was not desirable.
