{"id":296834,"date":"2022-12-26T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=296834"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:37:24","slug":"president-for-service-oriented-conduct-of-officials-to-ensure-justice-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2022\/12\/president-for-service-oriented-conduct-of-officials-to-ensure-justice-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"President for service oriented conduct of officials to ensure justice to people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-296834-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/President-Arif-Alvi-addressing-an-awareness-seminar-@-khi-26-12-2022.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/President-Arif-Alvi-addressing-an-awareness-seminar-@-khi-26-12-2022.mp4\">https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/President-Arif-Alvi-addressing-an-awareness-seminar-@-khi-26-12-2022.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>KARACHI, Dec 26 (APP): President Dr. Arif Alvi on Monday urged all government officials to ensure the dispensation of justice to the public and their service in its true spirit so that problems faced by citizens could be resolved in the shortest possible time.<\/p>\n<p>The president was addressing an awareness seminar titled \u201cRoles, functions and Performance of Federal Tax Ombudsman\u201d held here at Sindh Governor House Karachi. FTO\u2019s annual report for the year 2021 was also unveiled at the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>President Arif Alvi said that it was among the primary duties of an ombudsman that he should expedite the process of dispensation of justice to the aggrieved citizens and find a way out for resolving the issues affecting citizens in an individual capacity or as a larger group.<\/p>\n<p>The president said the written words of law sometimes cannot cater to and address all given situations therefore superior judiciary has been empowered to interpret the provision of the constitution and law.<\/p>\n<p>He said that legislation is a dynamic process that keeps on evolving to cater to new development, products, emerging business and trade processes, and development of the society which sometimes slow down the dispensation of services to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Like the overall legal framework tax laws also pass through a dynamic and progressive process and they always require amendments and interpretation for their implementation in the spirit of facilitating and serving the public.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there is a need to create friendly, services-oriented, and objective tax system where every taxpayer willingly and happily follows the law and pays tax obligations without any fear of exploitation, harassment, or intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>Ombudsman secretariats were important organs of state and those could play an effective role in resolving public issues by right interpretation of concerning laws and providing a remedy to the aggrieved citizens, Dr. Arif Alvi said adding that ombudsmen- whether it is federal, tax, or insurance ombudsman- were not rival to government departments and organizations but those were to facilitate the public and ensure their access to the concerned forums for resolution of their grievances.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the era of Hazrat Muhammad s.a.w. and Khulfa-e-Rashidain, the president said that whenever someone was appointed to administer public affairs at that time he was directed to ensure public access and keep the sense of service supreme. \u201cThe spirit of keeping the doors opened and listening to people\u2019s grievances must be kept alive,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Tax Ombudsman Dr. Asif Mahmood Jah addressing the occasion said that FTO is a dynamic and vibrant organisation working for giving a respectable status to taxpayers so that they do not have to face problems while paying taxes and resolution of issues. FTO through a resolution of individual and collective issues of a large number of people has become a public relief organisation and its decisions affect millions of people, he said adding that in a recent case pertaining to deduction in the tax rate on locally assembled vehicles FTO\u2019s decision provided relief to over 9,500 taxpayers while people would get relief in another case of same nature about tax on tractors.<\/p>\n<p>He informed that FTO has presented recommendations regarding the issue of stuck-up containers of imported soya beans at the port.<\/p>\n<p>President Arif Alvi handed over cheques for the tax refund to citizens who had booked vehicles at higher rates but the government afterward reduced the rate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Dec 26 (APP): President Dr. Arif Alvi on Monday urged all government officials to ensure the dispensation of justice to the public and their service in its true spirit so that problems faced by citizens could be resolved in the shortest possible time. 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