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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved a Centralised Litigation Management System (CLMS) and an overhaul of the tax machinery’s legal system nationwide to expedite the disposal of genuine tax litigation.
The prime minister took the decisions on the recommendations of a task force headed by former senior Inland Revenue Service (IRS) officer Shad Muhammad Khan, who helped reconcile litigation cases at the Supreme Court and facilitated the resolution of around 1,800 cases within a year.
The task force report revealed that the total number of tax cases pending before the Supreme Court of Pakistan stood at 2,800, significantly lower than the 5,000 to 6,000 cases earlier cited by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
Of the total, around 1,600 cases pertained to IRS matters, while approximately 1,200 were related to customs disputes, according to the report presented to the prime minister. Moreover, officials informed the meeting that decisions on tax disputes through the Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) forum have so far generated Rs24 billion for the national exchequer this year.
