ISLAMABAD: The Customs Air Freight Unit (AFU) Islamabad is smoothly going towards achieving its assigned revenue collection target under the head of Customs Duty for third quarter (January to March) 2016-17. The board revived our target upward at eleventh hours which will be hard but third quarter assigned target will be achieved.
This was stated by Additional Deputy Collector AFU Khawaja Naeem while talking to Customs Today.
He said the AFU is optimistic about the plus revenue collection target of upcoming 3rd quarter of Financial Year (January to March 2016-17). “We are on target and are to meet all the targets till date”.
He said the AFU wants to enhance its efficiency for the best performance in this regard. He emphasized that the AFU wants improvement through audit and facilitation which will ultimately benefit the business community. He said the AFU was assigned revenue collection target of Rs225million under the head of CD for the month of March 2016-17. The board has revised the Model Customs Collectorate Islamabad’s CD target with new figures in which the target of AFU also has changed upward with Rs10million under the same head.
He said the new assigned target for AFU is Rs230million as it is working day and night to achieve its assigned target for the month of March. He said Chief Collector North Madam Sarwat Tahira Habib visited AFU Islamabad last week during which she asked the AFU staff to recompose its efforts towards revenue collection, especially With Holding Tax (WHT).
