LAHORE: Excise is taking strict action against defaulter vehicles in Lahore after warning to Directors about improving their performance and collection of revenue up to satisfactory level by Secretary Excise Punjab Ali Tahir.
Director Excise Motor Branch Suhail Arshad is very vigilant in Lahore region to collect Token Tax and for registration of new vehicles to increase revenue. Excise and Taxation Department has formed special teams to keep check on vehicles which have still failed to pay their Token Tax especially unregistered vehicles.
During one week Excise Motor Branch Lahore has seized documents of 800 vehicles, mostly defaulter of Token Tax. Number of people after seizure of their vehicle documents and national identity cards paid their taxes and got their documents back.
Teams of Excise Motor Branch Lahore have established special checkpoints on different roads to check defaulter vehicles. Excise seizes documents during checking of vehicles at Jail road, Feroz pur road, Model Town, Multan Road, Raiwand Road, Ravi road, Faisal Town and Shahdra toll plaza.
During last week Excise seized documents of 700 vehicles which now increased to 800 in this week. Campaign against defaulter vehicles is likely to continue in coming weeks as Motor Branch is facing heavy short fall in tax collection. Huge numbers of people have failed to pay their Token Tax even vehicles on life time token tax category have failed to pay.
