KARACHI: The Customs Directorate of Post Clearance Audit-Karachi has detected evasion of taxes, duties to the tune of Rs 531.147 million in January 2016
According to sources, Directorate of the PCA under the supervision of Director Gul Rehman detected some 48 cases of tax and duties evasion just in a month.
Among these cases, the audit observations of some 22 cases and contravention report of more than 26 cases have been issued and the importers, who brought loss to the national exchequer, are asked to pay the short paid amount, sources added.
“There are cases of short payment of custom duty, sales tax, additional sales tax and income tax, regulatory duty due to misuse of fifth schedule, sixth schedule and clause 77 part IV, second schedule of income tax for evasion of CD, RD, ST, Addl ST and IT for LED Lights, misdeclaration of classification of coated Calcium Carbonate, short payment of custom duty and other taxes due to misdeclaration of classification on import of Telecommunication equipment, software and license, misuse of SRO 549(I)/2008, SRO 659(I)/2007 and etc.
In the month of December 2015, Directorate of PCA Karachi had detected some 61 cases of tax and duties evasion. In these cases, the audit observations of some 25 cases while contravention reports for 36 cases have been issued and the cases are in adjudication.
It is mentioned here that Federal Board of Revenue had posted Gul Rehman as Director PCA-Karachi in January 2015 and the officer broke all the records as cases of tax evasion was detected to the tune of Rs 1 billion in six months despite the fact that the directorate is facing serious issues like shortage of staff etc.
