management act and threatened to go on strike for indefinite period. Spokesman said that if this anti-worker act was not withdrawn, the protest would be extended to all over the country. He said Union’s Lahore Region General Secretary Shehzad Khurshid and President Syed Naeem Abbas had submitted the resolution with the major Chief Commissioners Inland Revenue, RTOs and the same resolution would be presented by the union’s regional leaders to Inland Revenue’s rest of the regional offices heads across the country tomorrow.
Union spokesman said the FBR Union executive bodies of major RTOs had sent the copies of resolution to the chief commissioners concerned, warning them to refrain from taking anti-workers step and withdraw the illegal order; otherwise, the entire staff of FBR would go on strike, closing each and every tax office in the country.
The rest of the Regional Tax Offices of Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Karachi and Quetta Customs have also called the meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) to condemn the dismissal. The spokesperson said that FBR Union, under the leadership of Abdul Qayyum, was not only working for the cause of lower staff of Tax Department but also endeavouring for the enhancement in tax collection by digging out corruption of billions of rupees.
‘The central president always raised the voice against tax evasion of several big companies, including so-called non-resident companies, which were evading billions of rupees tax for a long time in connivance with FBR’s own high officials. The crime of the union is just attempting to make the FBR a transparent tax collecting agency but the officials, having some vested interests, do not want this transparency.’
Spokesperson vowed that union, under the leadership of Abdul Qayyum, would continue struggle for the cause of workers and field staff, who actually make revenue target possible by their efforts, besides pointing out the revenue leakage due to corrupt officers.