Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Muhammad Aurangzeb visited the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Headquarters on Friday and held a meeting with Chairman FBR and Members of the Board to review revenue collection performance of FBR.

Attorney General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan was also present on the occasion. During the meeting, Chairman FBR gave a detailed briefing to the Minister about the revenue collection efforts of FBR for the current financial year 2023-24.

The Chairman also briefed about measures being taken for digitalization of FBR to further improve its performance. The Finance Minister emphasized on devising strategies to enhance tax-to-GDP ratio and broaden the tax base to maximize revenue collection.

The Minister called for making all-out efforts to achieve the ongoing year’s revenue collection target. Various other issues including pending legal cases also came under discussion during the meeting.

It was decided to devise a holistic strategy to actively pursue all the pending legal cases for early recovery of stuck up revenue.