KARACHI: The Customs Adjudication-II issued seven final notices and recovered Rs32.45million in 27 days of March. Sources said that three more cases are in pipeline which will be settled in the end of this March.
On Tuesday, the Customs Adjudication-II served a final notice on a defaulter company named M/s Hijazi Papers, and retrieved Rs5million from M/s Qadeer Motors.
M/s Hijazi Papers was involved in tax evasion. The company imported different types of papers including roller machine paper, computer printer and photocopier paper A4 and A3. The consignment was cleared on December 9, 2017 by using the wrong PCT heading. The consignment was cleared through Sultan Qayyum.
After a careful investigation, the Customs Adjudication-II issued a final notice to the company on Thursday and cleared the outstanding amount of Rs6.58million. Sources said that another company M/s Qadeer Motors Karachi got cleared a consignment on December 2, 2017 and evaded tax amount of Rs4.23million.
After the investigation, the Customs Adjudication-II served a show cause notice on the company on February 9, but it failed to clear the arrears.
Collector Customs Adjudication-II issued a final notice to the company on March 12, 2018. After receiving the notice, the company deposited Rs4.23million in favor of the Customs Department on March 27.
Source said that the Custom Adjudication II has received 16 more cases which will be investigated in the next month of April.
