ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has suspended two officers for four months for their alleged involvement in leaking tax data of former Army Chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa’s family.
The FBR on Thursday issued a notification suspending two of its officers, Zahoor Ahmed and Atif Nawaz Waraich, for their alleged involvement in leaking tax records of General Bajwa and his family.
The notification reads that in exercise of powers under sub-rule (1) of the Civil Servants (Officials and Apprentices) Rules, 2020, the Competent Authority i.e. Secretary Revenue/Chairman FBR has appointed two officers of BS- 18 of the Inland Revenue Service have been immediately suspended for 120 days.
The two suspended officers are Zahoor Ahmad (Admin Pool) FBR (Headquarters) Islamabad and Atif Nawaz Waraich (Admin Pool) FBR (Headquarters) Islamabad.
On November 21, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar tasked Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Revenue Tariq Pasha with the task of investigating the leak of tax returns of the former army chief’s family.
He took notice of the “illegal and unnecessary” leak of tax information of General (Rtd) Bajwa’s family members.
“This is a clear violation of the absolute confidentiality of tax information that the law provides,” a statement from the finance division read.
