Enforcement-South has collected Rs 1.67 billion customs duty against Rs 1.79b target in November
By Sohail Rab Khan
KARACHI: Enforcement-South Chief Collector Nazim Saleem asked all the collectorates which fall under him to speed up the revenue collection in terms of customs duty with a view to attain the revenue target set by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Sources informed Customs Today.
In November, the Enforcement-South collected customs duty worth Rs 1.67 billion in November against its set target of Rs 1.79 billion, falling short of Rs 114.80 million in revenue target.
The Enforcement-South consists of the Model Customs Collectorates (MCC) of Preventive, Hyderabad, Exports, Exports (Port Qasim), Quetta and Gwadar.
According to details, the MCC-Preventive has collected Rs 1134.21 million in term of Custom Duty in the month of November-2014 against its set target of Rs 1130.53 million with an increase of Rs 3.68million.
The MCC-Hyderabad collected Rs 262.94 million customs duty in November against its set target of Rs 524.66 million with a shortfall of Rs 261.72 million.
The MCC-Export collected Rs 481.01 million customs duty in November against the set target of Rs 433.45 million with an increase of Rs 47.56 million.
The Export (Port Qasim) collected an amount of Rs22.14million in the month of Nov-2014 in share of Custom Duty against its set target of Rs367.27million with a decrease of Rs345.13million.
Furthermore, the MCC-Quetta collected Rs 51.42 million customs duty in November against its set target of Rs 48.55 million with an increase of Rs 2.87million.
Meanwhile, the MCC-Gwadar collected Rs 91.41 million customs duty in November against a set target of Rs 20.74 million with an increase of Rs 70.67 million.
Sources informed Customs Today that Enforcement-South Chief Collector Nazim Saleem asked the authorities concerned of all the collectorates to speed up the revenue collection in terms of customs duty with a view to attain the revenue target set by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
