KARACHI: The Customs Directorate of Post Clearance Audit-Karachi has detected tax, duty evasion to the tune of Rs 970.992 million during December 2015.
According to sources, Directorate of PCA under the supervision of Director Gul Rehman had detected some 61 cases of tax, duty evasion in a month.
In these cases, the audit observations of some 25 cases while contravention reports for 36 cases have been issued and the importers, who brought loss to the national exchequer, are directed to pay the short paid amount, sources added.
“There are cases of evasion of custom duty, sales tax, additional sales tax and income tax due to mis-declaration of values. And, misuse of material imported under the DTRE scheme”, sources said.
The majority of cases are of miuse of 5th Schedule, SIxth Schedule and clause 77 part-IV, Second Schedule of Income Tax for evasion of customs duty, regulatory duty, sales tax, additional sales tax and income tax for LED lights etc.
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.
