SIALKOT: Collector Customs Ahmed Reza Khan presided over a meeting at his office on other day. Additional Collector Faiz Ali, Deputy Collectors Waheed Anwar Abro and Muhammad Hanif Khan and Assistant Collectors Choudhary Fahad Bashir and Ali Mohtashim Minhas and other officials attended the meeting.
The agenda of the meeting was to discuss the revenue measures for future in the third and fourth quarter of the economic year 2016-17. Collector Customs directed all participants of the meeting to attain revenue targets assigned for the economic year 2016-17.
Deputy Collector Muhammad Hanif Khan briefed collector about the revenue collection measures adopted by Customs Collectorate for the current fiscal year 2015-16. Deputy Collector said that Sialkot Dry Port Trust (SDPT) is the only dry port of the Punjab which is handling import and export handling of the batches in the Punjab.
Collector directed all participants to make early recovery of arrears from defaulters in order to collect taxes. Deputy collector also briefed about manufacturing bond certificate and DTRE audit during the meeting.
Addressing the participants he said that Customs Collectorate is the biggest revenue collection city in Pakistan after Karachi due to import of huge volume of scrap, leather items, zips etc. through Sialkot Dry Port Trust (SDPT) .
Deputy collector informed collector about major reasons in the decline of the revenue collection which is decrease in the prices various items which import and export .Collector directed all participants in meeting to accomplish their revenue targets.
