NBR to expand CIC to net more tax-dodgers

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The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to expand the activities of its Central Intelligence Cell (CIC), and approved the expansion of the wing following considerable success in the last three years, reports UNB.
NBR Chairman Muhammad Abdul Mazid recently signed a new organogram of the CIC, comprising 58 staffs.
At present, 26 people, including nine senior officials, are employed in the CIC.
The newly-approved CIC organogram includes two new posts of additional director general, four of joint director general, five deputy director general, and 10 assistant director general.
It also includes one assistant programmer, four intelligence officers, two investigation officers, three posts each for computer operator and data entry operator, one each for LD store-keeper, upper division assistant and cashier, eight posts for driver, 11 posts for MLSS, and one post each for senior attorney and assistant attorney.
The expanded CIC will cost Tk 7.03 million per annum.
In the 2006-07 fiscal, CIC detected tax evasions worth Tk 253.5 million, Tk 516.1 million in the 2005-06 fiscal, and Tk 553.3 million in the 2004-05 fiscal.
In recent times, the activities of the CIC were being greatly hampered due to lack of adequate manpower. The CIC sources said, it was very difficult for the few senior CIC officials to go the offices of the suspected tax-dodgers to verify their records.
They said the CIC officials are supposed to operate in a wide field of revenue area. The NBR did not suggest any specific field of work for them.
The CIC had detected tax evasions by different businesses, including garments, professionals like doctors, lawyers and engineers as well as service-holders, private security agencies, shipping agents, C and F agents, and marriage bureaus.