LAHORE: Chief Collector Customs, Central, Lahore Zeba Hai Azhar on Monday presided over a meeting of the collectors and officers of the Central Region and discussed successful achievement of assigned revenue targets. The Chief Collector Customs congratulated her team on this unprecedented growth in respect of revenue collection and hoped that the Central Region would witness similar success in coming months.
The Custom Central Region has successfully surpassed its revenue collection target set for the month of October 2017. According to details, the Central Region was assigned revenue target of Rs 13,640.35 million in respect of all duty and taxes for the month of October, 2017 and its collection stood at Rs 15,159.54 million which was 11 percent excess to the assigned target and 34 percent excess of the targets achieved in October 2016, last year.
It is also important to mention here that Federal Board of Revenue assigned revenue collection target for customs duty for the month of October, 2017 was Rs 4,896.71 million, whereas Rs 5,361.35 million were collected showing an increase of Rs 464.64 millions which is 9 percent excess from the allocated target and 54 percent excess of customs duty (CD) collected during the month of October 2016 last year.
Chief Collector Zeba Hai Azhar after assuming the charge of chief collector Central Region directed entire staff to use all available resources to achieve the revenue collection target set for the month of October of Fiscal Year 2017-18. She also implemented a comprehensive policy in this regard.
