KARACHI: The Customs Adjudication-II showed excellent performance by taking actions against tax defaulters and issuing notices during the 25 days of January.
Sources told Customs Today that the Customs Adjudication-II served a final notice on a defaulter company named M/s Usman Textile and Export Karachi and recovered Rs 6.48 million from M/s Sarfaraz Handicrafts Hyderabad.
M/s Usman Textile and Export Karachi was involved in the tax evasion. The company imported a consignment of used and new digital cameras on November 14, 2017 and used the wrong Pakistan Custom Tariff heading.
After a careful investigation, the Customs Adjudication-II issued a final notice to the company and got cleared the outstanding amount of Rs 7.25 million.
Source said that another company M/s Sarfaraz Handicrafts got cleared a consignment of brass pipes and brass nuts bolts on November 8 and evaded tax amount of Rs 6.48 million.
After the investigation, Customs Adjudication-II served a show cause notice on the company on November 27 but it failed to get clear the outstanding tax amount.
Collector Customs Adjudication-II Tahir Qureshi issued a final notice to the company on January 2, 2018. After receiving the notice, the company deposited Rs 6.48 million in favor of the Customs Department.
