FAISALABAD: The Customs Collectorate Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Mianwali has seized a non-duty paid Toyota Vitz car. The market value of the impounded vehicle is Rs 768,942 involving customs duty and taxes of Rs 368,924.
Sources told to Customs Today that the ASO team comprising Superintendents Chaudhary Muhammad Sardar, Azhar Hussain Jafri, Muhammad Omar Bhatti, (inspector), and Sher Ahmad, Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Yousaf (sepoys) and Riasat Hussain driver, during their routine checking, found a Toyota Vitz car bearing registration no. MY-265 Islamabad model 2003 as per seat belt and automatic gear system and transmission near Chashma Chowk district Mainwali.
The ASO team examined the vehicle and found nothing available in it except bogus copy of registration book.
The ASO seized the vehicle under section 2(s), read with SRO.566(1)2005 section 16, and 18 of the Customs Act 1969 section 3 of Sales Tax Act 1990 and section 148 of Income Tax Ordinance 2001 and forward the case to Customs Adjudication department for legal action.
