ISLAMABAD: The Customs Court Rawalpindi approved judicial remand of Appraiser Mohammad Tahir Khan who is involved in mis-declaration and tax evasion amounting to Rs.14.962 million which was cleared by him. He will again be produced in Customs Court for further proceedings.
Deputy Collector Shahid Jan while talking to Customs Today said that I&I Rawalpindi had registered an FIR No.10/2018 against tax evasion by staff of AFU Islamabad and after investigation by I&P department, it was revealed that Principal Appraiser Tahir Khan is involved in illegal clearance of consignment imported by M/s Hunbul Tex (Pvt) Ltd Lahore which evaded duty & taxes by mis-declaring its description, value and PCT heading.
He said that the total value of above said consignment assessed by staff of Customs stood at Rs.4.234 million while total ascertained assessed value of seized goods as per VR No.1237 found to be Rs.30.426 million and total differential value was Rs.26.191 million whereas duty taxes paid as Rs 0.769 million against actual taxes stood at Rs.14.962 million.
He added that accordingly a Goods Declaration (GD) No.12374 dated 11.01.2018 was filed by the above said company through M/s Capital Cargo Service (clearing agent challan no.191) for clearance of digital printing inkjet inks U/V assorted colors through WeBOC system.
Shahid notified that later on after clearance from Customs the aforesaid GD was re-blocked at gate out stage for further scrutiny, adding that as per documents the goods were declared and assessed as reactive dyes under PCT Heading -3204.1600 and assessed at 06 Euro per kilogram attracting customs duty (CD) 16%, Sales Tax (ST) 0%, Additional Customs Duty (ACD) 1% but obtained the benefit of SRO. 1125(1)2011 dated 31.12.2011.
He said that the seized goods were reexamined in the presence of clearing agent namely Sajid Mehmood. The details mentioned on the recovered goods are as M/s Hunbul Textile reactive dye LIQ containing 125 cartons of 4 cans of 10 kilogram total 500 cans (5000 kilogram net).
It is worth mentioning here that the plastic canes do not bear any name of manufactures, technical details of material and country of origin and as per knowledge, there is no plant in the name of Hunbul preparing such state-of-the-art ink in Europe, it means the importer deliberately removed the original stickers to mis-declare the description.
