“Anchors” are a new breed. In our childhood the film actors actresses were the most near to the peoples hearts. Then became the cricketers and today are the TV anchors. Number of film heroes never increased with that speed and continuity as to this new breed. Our every Anchor is invariably an intellectual “knows everything”. For example Dr. Shahid Masood last month covering the death of Kamal Ahmed Rizvi stated in his talk show that Rizvi used to sit at Café George in Karachi which later “became Pak Tea House”. The premises housing café George immediately cafter café’s demise turned into a pigeonhole commercial market never any tea house. Each anchor tries his best to paint himself/herself like General Zia “your most humblest obedient”. But all of them invariably are biased, unfair, dishonest in their “presented views” in one form or to one degree or the other.
2. Haroon Al-Rasheed the senior columnist in his column 25 December 2015 touching the tax amnesty scheme for the businessmen, quoted about a Lahore based businessman who himself is a Chartered Accountant from UK and employs four other CAs in his organization. Yet he can’t himself fill up the so complicated Income Tax Return Form and hires a professional for that. The intellectual columnist raises a very pertinent millions worth question “does it not require the Form is made simple” which could easily be filled by the filler himself.
3. Haroon Rashid hardly lets any occasion pass by where he could not mention Dr. Muhammad Shuaib Suddle as one of the most proficient civil servant. If any fair enquiry is cry of the time, he would invariably mention Dr. Shoaib Suddle for that. I had myself personally been admirer of him and as a 30-years-in-police-uniform abroad I twice wrote admiring letters to Suddle on his very good admirable work in Karachi noticed by police worldwide. I lost this administration when he was made to investigate and find who was right and who was wrong when Arslan Iftikhar and Malik Riaz blamed each other. Malik Riaz alleged Arslan took money from him, Arsland denied. Dr. Suddle was assigned to find the fact. He came with a very funny decision that both were tax evaders. According to an Urdu phrase says “question mango, answer banana”.
4. Dr. Shoaib Suddle remained four long years the Federal Tax Ombudsman. Can respectfully and humbly the senior intellectual Haroon Rasheed be asked why the Return Form which he today wished to be simple, was not simplified by Dr. Suddle? As a layman if my memories are not failing me in this too old age, during his tenure Septembers/Octobers many times FBR extending date of Filing due to still non availability of Tax Forms itself let alone simplified.
5. An ombudsman is not just to provide “individual personal” reliefs to the complainants. The main function of an ombudsman is to “diagnose” the act of mal administration and put the derailed system back on the track. Dr. Suddle provided “appreciably” to the complainants reliefs in shape of rebate settlements, refunds etc but nowhere putting the system back. For one example; from December 2014 I am seeking an information from CBR. Now after one year I am going to file a formal complaint with Tax Ombudsman. Had Dr. Suddle tackled the problem of non response by FBR which he was supposed to, today I would not had to wait for a year and just for a small information knock at door of Ombudsman. People of this country of and on read how “tactfully” rebate (undue if not scandalously) is taken by the business circles. Dr. Suddle could not fully control it. During Asif Zaradi’s tenure FBR prepared 7 lac notices to add new assesses for despatch by a target date. During the present PML-N rule once again about 70,000 new notices was heard but what happened to previous 7 lacs. Why were not those despatched? Had those lacks been despatched there could never had any need of new 70,000. What did Dr. Suddle do about those lac remaining un-despatched? Did he take any action against those income tax officers during whose area those 7 lack pertained to. Did he take any action against the concerned income tax officers during whose presence in office Arslan and Malik Riaz allegedly evaded tax.
2. Haroon Al-Rasheed the senior columnist in his column 25 December 2015 touching the tax amnesty scheme for the businessmen, quoted about a Lahore based businessman who himself is a Chartered Accountant from UK and employs four other CAs in his organization. Yet he can’t himself fill up the so complicated Income Tax Return Form and hires a professional for that. The intellectual columnist raises a very pertinent millions worth question “does it not require the Form is made simple” which could easily be filled by the filler himself.
3. Haroon Rashid hardly lets any occasion pass by where he could not mention Dr. Muhammad Shuaib Suddle as one of the most proficient civil servant. If any fair enquiry is cry of the time, he would invariably mention Dr. Shoaib Suddle for that. I had myself personally been admirer of him and as a 30-years-in-police-uniform abroad I twice wrote admiring letters to Suddle on his very good admirable work in Karachi noticed by police worldwide. I lost this administration when he was made to investigate and find who was right and who was wrong when Arslan Iftikhar and Malik Riaz blamed each other. Malik Riaz alleged Arslan took money from him, Arsland denied. Dr. Suddle was assigned to find the fact. He came with a very funny decision that both were tax evaders. According to an Urdu phrase says “question mango, answer banana”.
4. Dr. Shoaib Suddle remained four long years the Federal Tax Ombudsman. Can respectfully and humbly the senior intellectual Haroon Rasheed be asked why the Return Form which he today wished to be simple, was not simplified by Dr. Suddle? As a layman if my memories are not failing me in this too old age, during his tenure Septembers/Octobers many times FBR extending date of Filing due to still non availability of Tax Forms itself let alone simplified.
5. An ombudsman is not just to provide “individual personal” reliefs to the complainants. The main function of an ombudsman is to “diagnose” the act of mal administration and put the derailed system back on the track. Dr. Suddle provided “appreciably” to the complainants reliefs in shape of rebate settlements, refunds etc but nowhere putting the system back. For one example; from December 2014 I am seeking an information from CBR. Now after one year I am going to file a formal complaint with Tax Ombudsman. Had Dr. Suddle tackled the problem of non response by FBR which he was supposed to, today I would not had to wait for a year and just for a small information knock at door of Ombudsman. People of this country of and on read how “tactfully” rebate (undue if not scandalously) is taken by the business circles. Dr. Suddle could not fully control it. During Asif Zaradi’s tenure FBR prepared 7 lac notices to add new assesses for despatch by a target date. During the present PML-N rule once again about 70,000 new notices was heard but what happened to previous 7 lacs. Why were not those despatched? Had those lacks been despatched there could never had any need of new 70,000. What did Dr. Suddle do about those lac remaining un-despatched? Did he take any action against those income tax officers during whose area those 7 lack pertained to. Did he take any action against the concerned income tax officers during whose presence in office Arslan and Malik Riaz allegedly evaded tax.
