ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued a clarification on the messages circulating in emails and social media regarding access of FBR on banking transactions.
In its official handout issued here on Wednesday FBR said. It clarified that there is no linkage or access to banking transaction at any level with the banks or financial institutions.
Similarly, it added there is no finger print authentication mechanism available with FBR. The tax profile data of FBR has only offline bank account numbers which are not linked with banks or financial institutions.
Therefore,the official handout noted, there is absolutely no risk of any access to transaction banking at any level.
FBR has termed Messages being circulated in emails and social media as fake and baseless.