KARACHI: The Directorate of Post Clearance Audit (PCA) has detected tax evasion of Rs 2,707 million during the month of May.
Sources told Customs Today that PCA Director Gul Rehman directed Deputy Director Sajid Ali Baloch and other relevant officials to scrutinize the import data of different consignments arrived here from Saudi Arabia, China, Qatar, Bahrain, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Europe, Italy, USA, European Union, India, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Oman, Malaysia, Singapore and Germany.
Most of these consignments were loaded with leather and tyres wax, polyester dyed suiting, shirting fabric, and polyester dyed fabric. During the scrutiny, it was revealed most of these consignments were cleared by using wrong SRO no: 1125, 1178.
Sources said that PCA teams issued tax evasion notices to all those company which were found involved in tax evasion. Sources said that some company willfully avoided to file reply, after their failure Customs Post Clearance Audit authorities forwarded the case to Customs Adjudication for further proceedings.
