KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Mukesh Kumar Chawla has said that Excise and taxation department has collected Rs 46767.966 million in terms of various taxes in last 10 months from July 2016 to April 2017, while during last fiscal year Rs 39457.588 million were collected in the same period.
This he said while presiding over a departmental meeting here in his office Thursday, said a statement. Secretary ET & NC Abdul Haleem Shaikh and Director General Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui also attended the meeting.
DG Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, while briefing the meeting, told that Rs. 4989.450 millions were collected in Motor Vehicle Tax, Rs. 33286.612 millions in Infrastructure Cess, Rs. 149 millions in Cotton Fee, Rs.1686.315 millions in Property Tax and Rs. 291 millions in Professional Tax and the remaining amount was collected in various other heads.
Mukesh Kumar expressed his satisfaction over recovery of the taxes and said that it was a matter of pleasure that the department had achieved its target earlier.
He stressed upon the officers concerned to achieve the tax targets before the current fiscal year ended. ‘Timely collection of the taxes plays a vital role in the progress of the province and we are supposed to come up to the people expectations’, he concluded.
