ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved a Centralised Litigation Management System (CLMS) and an overhaul of the tax machinery’s legal system nationwide to expedite the disposal of genuine tax litigation. The prime minister took the decisions on the recommendations of a task force headed by former senior Inland Revenue Service (IRS) officer Shad Muhammad Khan, who helped reconcile litigation cases at the Supreme Court and facilitated the resolution of around 1,800 cases within a year. The task force report revealed that the total number of tax cases pending before the Supreme Court of Pakistan stood at 2,800, significantly lower than the 5,000 to 6,000 cases earlier cited by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).