KARACHI: Collector Customs Collectorate Exports Muhammad Yaqoob Mako has directed the officials to prepare “revenue recovery notices” to ensure collection of outstanding taxes from defaulters.
Sources informed Customs Today that the collector, in a meeting, directed the additional collectors and deputy collectors to ask their subordinates to form a list of Export Oriented Units which have failed to pay their outstanding taxes.
Sources further said that the additional collectors and deputy collectors have given the task to the assistant collectors and principal appraisers to prepare the list as soon as possible so that a crackdown could be launched against the defaulters.
It may be mentioned here that the Collector Exports Muhammad Yaqoob Mako while taking the charge of the Collectorate has asked to prepare the list of bed-debts revenue recovery amount so that the revenue condition of the Collectorate could be enhanced.
The sources further informed this scribe that the revenue recovery crackdown was already initiated in the reign of the then Collector Exports Manzoor Memon, when he was look after the charge of Collector Exports during the year2013-14.
The Customs Exports during that time was sent millions of rupees short recovery notices to the heads of different export oriented units and also sealed several units on condition of non-payment after serving the notices in stipulated time frame.
The sources further revealed that intensified crackdown by the Customs Collectorate Exports is likely to be expected even in this time under the supervision of the Collector Exports Muhammad Yaqoob Mako.
