KARACHI: The Chief Collector Appraisement South Abdul Rasheed Shaikh called a revenue related meeting at his office in order to review the revenue status by the end of April-2016.
The meeting was attended by the Collectors of all the three field formations i.e. Appraisement (West), Appraisement (East) and Appraisement Port Muhammad Bin Qasim.
The Chief Collector Appraisement (South) asked recommendations and suggestions from the collectors of all three field formation Collectorates including CollectorAppraisement (West) Dr Farid Iqbal Qureshi, Collector Appraisement (East) Ashhad Jawwad and CollectorAppraisement Port Muhammad Bin Qasim Mukarram Jah.
During the meeting, the Chief Collector Abdul Rasheed Shaikh was expressed his satisfaction over the revenue collection during the 10 months of the current fiscal year 2015-16 although, the Chief Collector-Appraisement (South) was of the view that the officials of all three field formation collecorates would continue their same efforts during the last quarters of the FY2015-16 to ensure achieve the revenue target set by the Federal Board of Revenue-FBR for the FY2015-16.
In the meeting, it was decided by the customs authorities that the process of auction, post release verification of the imported consignments and pursuance of the legal cases of customs at different courts of law would be continued by the end of June-2016.
It is pertinent to mention here that the import throughout the fiscal year 2015-16 was remain low as compare to the last Fiscal Year and it would indeed a difficult task for the customs authorities to meet the revenue figures by the end of FY2015-16 according to the target set by the FBR.
