LAHORE: Collectorate of Customs Appraisement collected Rs28.4 billion under the head of customs duty (CD) during the Fiscal Year 2016-17.
Sources told Customs Today that this amount is 24 percent extra as compared to the collection of Fiscal Year 2015-16. Sources told that Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) assigned revenue collection target of Rs4532 million under the head of customs duty (CD) for the month of June. Sources told that the collected amount is more than 30 percent as compared to the collection of same month of previous Fiscal Year.
It is necessary to mention here that Collector Customs Collectorate of Appraisement Jamil Nasir lauded the efforts of his Collectorate which work devotedly and not only achieved the assigned revenue collection target but surpassed it with a big margin.
Sources told that Collector Jamil Nasir directed his team to use all available resources to collect outstanding tax amount from defaulters specially those who are willfully avoiding to pay taxes.
