KARACHI: The Anti-Smuggling Organisation, MCC Preventive Karachi seized smuggled and non-duty paid goods from a passenger bus bearing No BSA-853 worth Rs 30,00,000. The goods include foreign origin cigarettes 78,000 packets worth Rs 31,22,500, Indian gutka 477,800 pouches worth Rs 4,778,000, 40 tyres worth Rs 171,872, face creams 142 worth Rs 43,200, cooking oil 82 cans (Malaysian) worth Rs 94,530 and cloth weighing 870kgs worth Rs411,274.
Imported phones taxed at 54%, locally assembled devices at 25%, NA committee told
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance has raised concerns over the high tax burden on mobile phones and...






