KARACHI: Customs Adjudication-II Tahir Qureshi showed outstanding performance by taking actions against tax defaulters and issuing notices during the month of November.
Source told Customs Today that the Customs Adjudication-II served a final notice on a defaulter company named M/s Farooq Garments and Export Landhi and recovered Rs 3.22 million from M/s Zahir Malik and Sons Karachi. M/s Farooq Garments and Export was involved in the tax evasion. The company imported different types of liquid chemicals on September 3, 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 4.50 million.
Source said that another company M/s Zahir Malik and Sons Karachi got cleared a consignment of imported washing machines and their parts on September 7 and evaded tax amount of Rs 3.22 million.
After the investigation, Customs Adjudication-II served a show cause notice on the company on September 23, but it failed to clear the outstanding tax amount.
On that time Collector Customs Adjudication-II Muhammad Javed issued a final notice to the company on October 16, 2017. After receiving the notice, the company deposited Rs 3.22 million in favor of the Customs department. Source said that about seven more show-cause or final notices will be issued to the defaulter companies in near future.
Earlier the Customs Adjudication-II has served a final notice on a defaulter named M/s Shuja Arain Traders and recovered Rs5.98million from M/s Arshi Textile Ltd Karachi.
