ISLAMABAD: The Customs Accompanied Baggage Section (AB) of the Benazir Bhutto International Airport Islamabad collected Rs2.22million of duty and taxes applied to baggage per kilogram during the 1st to 19th of July Financial Year (FY) 2017-18.
The AB section earned Rs3.49million surplus revenue against the assigned target during FY2016-17. The AB set Rs27.68million of revenue target for FY16-17 whereas it did Rs31.17million during FY2016-17 against the allocated revenue target.
Assistant Collector AB Sadia Usman gave such details during an exclusive interview to Customs Today.
She said the performance of the AB has been good during 19 days of the current month of July FY2017-18. The AB section also showed tremendous performance during FY2016-17.
Telling details of FY2016-17, she informed CT that during FY2016-17, the AB seized three cases of heroin smuggling worth Rs220.50million while it seized three cases of foreign currencies priced Rs22.09million in the international market. The said seized currencies comprise 485,800 Saudi Riyals (SR), 49,500 Qatari Riyals, 6,000 UK Pounds and 6,000 Euros. The total value of the seized foreign currencies is Rs22.90million.
During FY2016-17, the AB seized 24 cases of mobile phones valued Rs53.40million whereas it confiscated two cases of gold smuggling priced Rs4.86million. During June FY2016-17, about Rs3.065million was earned whereas the AB did Rs2.24million of revenue during May FY2016-17.
Sadia Usman, Assistant Collector AB, told CT that during the month of April FY2016-17, the AB received Rs2.82million while it did revenue of Rs2.92million during the month of March FY2016-17. During the month of February FY2016-17, the AB generated Rs2.81million of revenue on Accompanied Baggage. During January FY16-17, the AB collected Rs2.56million.
Sadia said that during the month of December FY2016-17, the AB earned Rs2.67million while it did Rs1.98million of revenue during the month of November 2016-17.
She further said that during the month of October FY16-17, the AB got Rs1.908million of revenue and it did Rs3.02million during the month of September FY16-17.
Assistant Collector told CT that during the month of August FY16-17, the AB received Rs2.46million of revenue whereas it did Rs2.68million of revenue during the month of July FY16-17.
She told CT that the AB surpassed its assigned target for corresponding FY2016-17 because of the guidance of Collector Model Customs Collectorate Islamabad and Chief Collector North Madam Sarwat Tahira Habib. During FY2015-16, the AB was allocated the target of Rs22.84million while during FY16-17 it was assigned to collect the revenue worth Rs27.68million.