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Federal Tax Ombudsman 2023 Federal Tax Ombudsman Ordinance, 2000

2023 PTD 1614

Jurisdiction assignments
THE SECRETARY, REVENUE DIVISION, ISLAMABAD: IN THE MATTER OF
Appellant
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Respondent

Case Laws / Head Notes / Paras

Pending cases of taxpayers, non-assigning of—Maladministration—Scope—Federal Tax Ombudsman took Own Motion against FBR Authorities to provide relief to the taxpayers because more than 65000 cases were unassigned, lying in CTO portal, in wake of split of one RTO into three RTOs— Validity—Though a large number of cases were revealed to be dead ones, however, as many as 18591 cases belonged to live / active tax-payers whose jurisdiction was yet to be ascertained—Unusually large number of cases were lying without assigning proper jurisdiction, causing not only grievance to taxpayers but also suffered from enforcement inaction, if any, by the Department—Apathy, inattention, ineptitude in discharge of duties tantamount to maladministration under S.2(3)(i...