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Ban on gold import to be lifted in two weeks
LAHORE: Federal Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir has said that ban on import of gold would be lifted in two weeks...
Zeba Hai assumes charge as Collector, MCC Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Zeba Hai Azhar has relinquished charge of the post of Director, of Training and Research (Customs) with effect from...
Vietnam launches electronic customs clearance system
HANOI: Vietnam in cooperation with Japan has launched an electronic customs clearance system. The country hopes to reduce costs and improve...
KCCI President rejects valuation guidelines
KARACHI: Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Abdullah Zaki, while expressing deep concerns over valuation guidelines on imported goods,...
Details of 0.85m taxpayers: FBR all set to publish Tax Directory on 15th
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue will make public details about annual income and tax paid by all 0.85 million...
Lack of data sharing by FBR delaying policy pattern
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Textile and Industry has written a comprehensive letter to the Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in which...
FBR to gather budget proposals by April 15
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has demanded the proposals for upcoming budget from all the stake holders till 15th of...
Afghans doing businesses sans FBR registration
ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Frontiers Lt-Gen (r) Abdul Qadir Baloch said that Afghan refugees were running their businesses in the...
Accounts audit likely to be made mandatory for e-filing of IT returns
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is planning binding taxpayers to get their accounts audited by professional accountant firms...
ANF recovers charas, heroin, methamphetamine
LAHORE: Anti-Narcotics Force has recovered 15.775 kg heroin, 16.609 kg charas and 980 grams of methamphetamine, after arresting nine persons and...
Cross-adjustment of ST: Govt yet to implement LHC verdict
LAHORE: The Federal government has failed to comply with a verdict pronounced by the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the...
Indicators point to healthy Pak economic growth: Ishaq Dar
ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the impressive macro-economic indicators, as monitored and assessed by international financial...
Tax evasion: I&I-IR digs deeper amid arrest of two executives
ISLAMABAD: In what is being described as the landmark achievement to unearth tax evasion by an international IT giant, the...
Customs society leaves for relief work in Tharparkar
LAHORE: A team of Customs Health Care Society has left for Tharparkar to overcome epidemic diseases in the drought-affected areas....
Customs three main collectorates generate Rs144b in 3rd quarter
KARACHI: The three main collectorates of Pakistan Customs, i.e. Model Customs Collectorate of Appraisement-East, Model Customs Collectorate of Appraisement-West and...
Illegal excisable goods trade: Swiss firm offers help to combat menace
ISLAMABAD: A Swiss company has offered to help the tax authorities illegal trade through introduction security marking, tax stamps and...
Japan to provide drug scanners: Majid Yousufani
KARACHI: Customs Reforms and Automation Director Abdul Majid Yousufani has said that the Government of Japan had given assurances for...
CGT on disposal of securities: FBR not to cap rate in budget
ISLAMABAD: The government has no intention to freeze the rate of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on disposal of securities (Tax...
LCCI, taxpayers brainstorm ST refund claims on Tuesday
LAHORE: The registered taxpayers and exporters will plead for the long-pending sales tax refunds issue with the sales tax refund...
Tax evasion: IT firm’s executives in Adiala Jail on remand
ISLAMABAD: The two top executives of an international IT firm, busted by the Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue (IR) on...
