PESHAWAR: The Collector of Model Customs Collectorate Peshawar has praised the revenue collection procedure adopted by different customs stations and cells in a talk with Customs Today on Monday at the Customs House Peshawar.
Collector Gul Rahman said efficient efforts were made during this year to collect more revenue than the assigned target in order to expand the tax net for the current FY.
Collector Gul Rahman gave special directives to all the deputy collectors, assistant collectors and additional collectors to meet the collection of duties. Gul Rahman has shown fruitful results as many of the customs stations, under the MCC Peshawar, have generated more revenue in the current year than the collection of previous year.
The Dry Port Peshawar has received Rs1701.54million revenue in the First-Quarter and the Bonded Warehouse did Rs711.56million revenue.
The AFU of the Bacha Khan International Airport got an amount of Rs49.14million during the First-Quarter of current FY whereas the Hazara Customs Station did Rs488.56million during the above said time period.
The Kohat–SWH collected Rs111.90million and Torkham Customs Station did Rs1968.44million.
The Treasury Branch of Peshawar Customs has generated Rs14.78million in the First-Quarter and Rs20.73million has been done by the Auction Cell of the Peshawar Custom.
The Recovery Cell received Rs0.93million whereas Rs35.77million was done by State Ware House Peshawar.
The Assessment Cell of the MCC Peshawar generated Rs0.88million and the International Mail Office did Rs1.29million.
The Investigation and Intelligence Auction collected Rs36.01million and Rs3.23million was done by the Kohat Auction during the First-Quarter of the current FY.
Collector Gull Rahman added that meetings will be called soon to know about the issues faced by importers, exporters and transporters for implementation of Web OC service along the borders with Afghanistan.
