LAHORE: The Customs Central Region has collected Rs 5,371 million in May 2017, showing a growth of 8 percent as compared to the assigned target of the same period last year.
As per details, the Customs Collectorate of Appraisement collected Rs 2,952 million customs duty during period under review while Customs Collectorate Preventive collected Rs 1,016 million.
On the other hand, the collectorate of Multan collected Rs 1,041 million customs duty during the month of May 2017.
In the same way, the collectorate of Faisalabad collected Rs 360 million customs duty during the month of May.
Overall, the Central Region collected all duty and taxes from all the four collectrates worth Rs 5,371 million to achieve the targets.
Sources said that Chief Collector of Customs Zeba Hai Azhar has called a collectors conference in order to stress for the need to intensify efforts to achieve target for the financial year 2016-17.
