MULTAN: The Excise and Taxation Department has impounded 213 vehicles in Multan during a general holdup.
The Excise and Taxation Department Vehicle Registering Branch impounded 21 unregistered vehicles in the city during the operation.
The department issued challan tickets to owners of 161 vehicles who had not paid their token tax. Moreover, 52 other vehicles were impounded from different areas of the city during the operation.
Following the instruction of Excise Director Jaam Siraaj, the raiding teams are taking stern action against token tax defaulters, applied-for-registration vehicles and other violators.
The Excise and Taxation Department has generated Rs 418,000 from the impounded vehicles during the operation.
Four different teams of the Excise and Taxation Department are participating in the general holdup.
Inspector Azhar Khurshid Khan, Aslam Niazi, Chaudhry Imtiaz and Najam Saqib are leading the teams, which are operating in the Sher Shah, Makhdoom Rasheed, Shujabad and Basti Malok areas.
Action against violators has been accelerated to meet the recovery targets assigned to each inspector for improvement of revenue generation. The step will help ensure that targets for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2014-15 are met.
It has also been circulated that the inspectors who failed to achieve the assign targets would be transferred to other districts as punishment.
