KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed customs department to file their comprehensive para-wise comments on a constitutional petition filed by M/s Tata Textile Mills Ltd against show cause notice for recovery of Rs114,962,747 on account of customs duty and taxes.
On April 1, 2019, counsel for the petitioner stated in his petition that a show cause notice was issued to the petitioner dated 01/07/2015 wherein it was alleged that the petitioner was granted a license for operating an export oriented unit under SRO 327(1)/2008 and petitioner was authorized to import plant, machinery, equipment and apparatus including capital goods to be used solely within the limited export oriented unit in terms of said SRO, besides importation of certain raw materials i.e raw cotton, polyester fiber and viscose fiber required for the manufacturing of textile yarn meant for export.
He submitted that petitioner is aggrieved and seriously prejudiced by the actions of the collector of Customs Exports, who has illegally issued demand of recovery notices and threatened to initiate recovery under Section (2) and (3) of Section 202 of the Customs Act, 1969, directing the petitioner to pay the adjudged amount of tax amounting to Rs114,962,747 on account of recovery of customs duty and taxes adjudged vide order-in-original no 136/2015-16 dated 08/01/2016 against which an appeal has been filed.
Citing chairman Federal Board of Revenue, collector of Customs Exports, Customs Appellate Tribunal as respondents, petitioner pleaded the court to suspend the demand notice and restrain them from taking any coercive action against the petitioner till final order in this petition.
