Implementing the federal government\u2019s austerity measures, the chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has constituted a high-level committee to introduce additional cost-cutting and resource conservation steps.<\/p>\n
As part of the initiative, the FBR has directed that 60 percent of official vehicles in field offices and headquarters be parked immediately. In addition, a major decision has been taken to reduce fuel expenditures of offices and headquarters by 50 percent.<\/p>\n
According to the directives, officers of grade 20 and above have been requested to voluntarily contribute two days\u2019 salary in advance as part of the austerity effort.<\/p>\n
The FBR has also instructed that 50 percent of the staff should immediately start working from home to minimize operational costs.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, a complete ban has been imposed on the purchase of durable goods, while a 20 percent reduction has been announced in the non-ERE budget for the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Officials have been given a deadline of March 11 to submit compliance and implementation reports to the FBR headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Implementing the federal government\u2019s austerity measures, the chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has constituted a high-level committee to introduce additional cost-cutting and resource conservation steps. As part of the initiative, the FBR has directed that 60 percent of official vehicles in field offices and headquarters be parked immediately. In addition, a major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,30],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[213],"class_list":{"0":"post-72693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-latest"},"yoast_head":"\n