FAISALABAD: The motor branch of the Excise and Taxation Department has achieved up to 46 percent target during the first six months of the current fiscal year, as it collected Rs 390.36 million against the assigned target of Rs 857.580 million for the year.
As per details, the motor branch collected Rs 301.24 million against the yearly target, which is Rs 645.36 million from Faisalabad. It has achieved target up to 47 percent during the said period.
From Jhang, it has generated Rs 39.339 by achieving yearly target or 41 percent, which is Rs 96.458 million. Rs 15.450 million was collected from Chiniot, while its target for the year is Rs 32.494 million that has been achieved up to 48 percent.
It has collected Rs 34.33 million from Toba Tek Singh, while the target for the year is Rs 83.192, which has been achieved up to 41 percent.
The motor branch checked vehicles, including motor bikes, commercial and private vehicles at Shiekhpura Road, Sargodha Road, Khanowal Chowk, Samanabad, Jarwala Road and at other places to nab the tax defaulters.
Following the directions of head of motor branch, Muhammad Afzal Goraya, the excise team comprising ETO Muhammad Sajjad, Inspector Muhammad Nazim Khan, Muhammad Akhtar Hussain, Ajmal Iqbal and others conducted crackdown against tax defaulters in the region.