The National Board of Revenue has massively reshuffled duties of its 40 officials in customs, excise and VAT commissionerates to bring administrative dynamism and achieve the revenue target set for the current fiscal year.
The board yesterday transferred 11 commissioners to different field offices, according to an order signed by NBR second secretary Md Shamsuddin with immediate effect.
The tax authority on Saturday also transferred 29 of its officials, including promoting an additional commissioner to the post of commissioner through four separate official orders.
Among the officials transferred, Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Dhaka (South) additional commissioner Ismail Hossain Siraji was promoted to commissioner of the same office.
Remaining officials from different Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate offices include five additional commissioners, 13 joint commissioners and joint directors and 10 assistant commissioners and assistant directors.
NBR officials said changes in revenue administration is a regular part of bringing dynamism in revenue collection.
“We do not want a tax official working in the same office for a long time. We have transferred the officials so that they can make new plan and strategies to reach the revenue target for the fiscal year 2014-15,” he added.
Earlier on April 2, the tax body made changes to duties of two of its income tax members. According to the order issued on the day, NBR member Kalipada Halder took the charge of tax appeal and exemption wing while Mahbubur Rahman was assigned to supervise legal and enforcement wing of income tax.
The tax officials transferred to different field offices are as follows:
Pangaon Custom House commissioner Masudul Kabir was transferred as commissioner to Customs House, Inland Container Depot (ICD), Kamalapur, Dhaka; Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Dhaka (West) commissioner M Saiful Islam was transferred to Customs Bond Commissionerate, Dhaka; and Customs, Excise & VAT (Appeal) Commissionerate, Chittagong commissioner Syed Golam Kibria was posted to Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Chittagong.
Customs Bond Commissionerate commissioner Abdul Mannan Shikder was transferred to Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Rajshahi; Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Chittagong commissioner Jamal Hossain was transferred to Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Jessore; Customs Bond Commissionerate, Dhaka commissioner M Shahidul Islam was assigned to Customs, Excise & VAT (Appeal) Commissionerate, Chittagong, the order reads.
Customs House, Inland Container Depot (ICD), Kamalapur commissioner SM Humayun Kabir was transferred to Customs Valuation & Internal Audit Commissionerate, Dhaka; Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Jessore commissioner (current charge) Shafiqul Islam was transferred to Customs Bond Commissionerate, Chittagong; Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Comilla commissioner (current charge) Enamul Haque was transferred to Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Dhaka (East); Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Khulna commissioner (current charge) Al Amin Pramanik was sent to Custom House, Mongla, Khulna; and Mongla Custom House, Khulna commissioner KM Ohidul Alam was posted to Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate, Khulna, as per the order.
The NBR is assigned to collect Tk1,49,720 crore as revenue in the current fiscal year.
In the first eight months of the current fiscal year, the tax body has already witnessed over Tk2,968 crore shortfall, the highest shortfall in Value Added Tax wing.
In the remaining four months, the taxmen will face a massive challenge as it will have to collect Tk69,742 crore to achieve its target.
