FBR identifies 16 tax officials with dual nationality, foreign residency

Business Recorder reported that at least 16 Federal Board of Revenue staff have foreign citizenship or overseas residency rights, according to a document the authority submitted to the Senate finance panel. Ten of them sit in the Inland Revenue Service and six in the Pakistan Customs Service, with grades ranging from BS-17 to BS-21.

Further verification is planned for officers with foreign ties, and more staff have been asked to share details of any overseas citizenship. The checks sit under the Civil Servants (Disclosure and Regulation of Foreign Nationality) Rules, 2026, which compel government employees to report foreign nationality.

Officers have a 90-day window to file the required particulars on the official template, while anyone yet to file has been told to do so immediately. Separately, the revenue body on Wednesday ordered grades BS-01 to BS-16 to lodge declarations about foreign citizenship and overseas travel papers with heads of their field units.