The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has barred Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) from developing IT software for FBR wings and departments, documents show.
FBR Chairman Salman Siddique slapped the ban after it emerged that the IT system was encountering lots of problems and separate systems were unnecessarily being developed for various departments working under the tax body. Siddique has approved the setting up of a core business domain team, which will be headed by senior FBR member Shafiq Muhammad. The team members would remain engaged with PRAL officials in future for development and verification of IT systems.
According to the documents, the chairman had noticed that various departments were introducing separate IT systems, causing problems as these systems were not integrated. To deal with the situation, he constituted a taskforce, asking it to give suggestions to handle the situation. The taskforce recommended that a core business domain team should be established to handle issues related to IT systems on a permanent basis.
According to the documents, PRAL has been barred from developing IT systems on demand of different wings and departments. Any wing which needs an IT system will have to contact FBR which, after examining the need, will ask PRAL to develop the required software.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 10th, 2011.
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