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FBR: audit closure, capacity & legality

According to a Press report, the government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) “has quietly closed over 310,000 tax audit cases that had been automatically selected from 2015 to 2017 due to…

Countering financial crimes

In recent days, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has taken many steps to enforce internal accountability mechanism to uproot corruption/malpractices within the organisation. The steps like making Chief Commissioners as…

SOEs: forensic audit

The federal government, in the third year of its five- year tenure, is reported to have decided to conduct forensic audit of ten loss-making State-Owned Entities (SOEs) for the FY2016-…

Call For Independent Financial Reporting Body

Call for independent financial reporting body

The Audit Oversight Board (AOB) established under the SECP Act, 1997 to regulate audit profession in the country and the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) recently formed under the control of…

Unlocking the financial safe havens

One does not know the exact amount that has been siphoned-off to foreign safe havens by our corrupt lot. The very clandestine nature of the activity renders it impossible to…

Performance audit of FBR

In recent days, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the audit of Pakistan Railways and Pakistan International Airlines to find out the causes of rampant corruption and inefficiency in these…

Putting brokerage houses under financial strain

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has issued a notification recently for the change of Brokerage Regime for Capital Markets. Under the proposed regime SECP intends to increase…