KARACHI: Customs Adjudication-II Tahir Qureshi showed outstanding performance by taking actions against tax defaulters and issuing notices during the first 22 days of December.
Source told Customs Today that the Customs Adjudication-II served a final notice on a defaulter company named M/s J K Enterprises and recovered Rs 2 million from M/s Madiha and Sons Karachi. M/s J. K. Enterprises was involved in tax evasion.
The company imported different types of Aluminum and steel scrape on October 28, 2017 and used the wrong PCT heading. After a careful investigation, the Customs Adjudication-II issued a final notice to the company and cleared the outstanding amount of Rs 6.20 million.
Source said that another company M/s Madiha and Sons Karachi got cleared a consignment of heavy duty home and commercial generator on September 27 and evaded tax amount of Rs 2 million.
After the investigation, Customs Adjudication-II served a show cause notice on the company on October 23, but it failed to clear the outstanding tax amount.
Collector Customs Adjudication-II issued a final notice to the company on December 6, 2017. After receiving the notice, the company deposited Rs 2 million in favor of the Customs department. Source said that about 14 more show-cause or final notices will be issued to the defaulter companies in near future.
