ISLAMABAD: The Customs Air Freight Unit (AFU) Islamabad is smoothly going towards achieving its assigned revenue collection target under the head of Customs Duty for third quarter (January to March) 2016-17. Although the board has revived our target upward at eleventh hours which will be hard yet third quarter’s assignment target will be achieved.
This was stated by Additional Deputy Collector AFU Khawaja Naeem while talking to Customs Today.
He said the AFU is optimistic about the plus revenue collection target for upcoming 3rd quarter of Financial Year (January to March 2016-17). “We are on the target and will have to meet all the targets till date”, he stressed. He said the AFU wants to enhance its efficiency for the best performance in this regard. He emphasized that the AFU wants improvement through audit and facilitation which will ultimately benefit the business community.
He further said the AFU was assigned revenue collection target of Rs225million under head of CD for the month of March 2016-17). The Board has revised the Model Customs Collectorate Islamabad CD target with new figures and the target of AFU also has been changed upward with Rs10million under the same head.
He said the new assigned target for AFU is Rs230million for which the AFU is working day and night to achieve it for the month of March. He added that Chief Collector North Madam Sarwat Tahira Habib asked the AFU staff to recompose their efforts towards revenue collection, especially With Holding Tax (WHT).
