AGP blames FBR’s slackness for heap of stay petitions

ISLAMABAD: The office of the Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) has identified deficiencies in the Federal Board of Revenue’s legal department that result in the filing of a large number of petitions with superior courts for a stay against tax recovery due to non-adherence to legal procedures for taxpayers.

This matter has been brought to the surface in a letter, the second in a week from the attorney general’s office (AGP). This comes after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s directive to...