C.S. presides meeting to improve tax collection system committee formed to computerize the task.

Chief Secretary Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah has stressed the need to improve the tax collection system transparently under a data based strategy, with a view to set up a mechanized way for tax collection. He was presiding a meeting to discuss and review the tax collection processes of various departments including Board of Revenue Sindh (BOR Sindh), Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) and Excise and Taxation Department. Chairman P and D Board Muhammad Waseem, SMBR Muhammad Hussain Syed, Chairman SRB Khalid Khan, Secretary E and T, Rahim Shaikh and Secretary Finance Najam Shah and other senior officers attended the meeting. A committee was constituted headed by Ali Bahadur Qazi - the Secretary Information Technology, to cumulate the data based systems of all Departments of Sindh Government with a view to stream line the Tax collection and Recovery System to facilitate the tax payers in all respect. The committee will submit report within a fortnight. Chief Secretary emphasized upon the computerization of all taxed viz professional tax, agriculture tax and stamp duty etc. A comprehensive survey will also be got conducted throughout the Province, to this effect, as resolved in the meeting. Earlier the chairman P and D Board and SRB Secretary E and T and SMBR briefed the meeting regarding the Tax collection system.