ISLAMABAD: Dry Port Islamabad exceeded its assigned revenue target by collecting Rs 862 million during October 2016-17.
This was stated by Assistant Collector Dry Port Islamabad Amanat Ali Khan while talking to Customs Today in his office. He said that attendance of the dry port Customs staff was 100% on Friday and he is optimistic that the staff will perform their duties on November 2 as per routine.
He said that Dry port Islamabad will continue to function despite dharna days because our job is to facilitate the business community especially importers and exporters.
Amanat added that during first quarter the dry port collected Rs 170 million more customs duty than the last financial year 2015-16. He said that during the first quarter the dry port collected customs duty of Rs 594 million.
He said that dry port collected Rs 232 million in the wake of sales tax during said period while Rs 68 million were collected as federal excise duty and Rs 163 million collected as withholding tax during the first quarter of financial year 2016-17.
Assistant Collector said that Dry Port Islamabad is using all available resources to generate more revenue. He said that efforts are also being made to meet the revenue collection target set for FY 2016-17.
Meanwhile, under strict instruction of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), the Customs car cell impounded three non-duty paid vehicles worth Rs 16.511 million during the last week of October.
The vehicles having registration numbers TQ-514, CLK-240 and LES-981 were seized in Islamabad on the information of the Collector’s office .
Customs sources said that the car cell staff showed outstanding performance during the first four months of the financial year 2016-17, adding that the Islamabad Customs generated a handsome revenue during the period. Sources said that the customs staff was performing their duties honestly and with full devotion.
Sources told that through abduction of non-duty paid vehicles the department getting revenue but to seizers of the smuggled vehicles also essential for prevention of security risks, the NDP vehicles can use for terror activities.
Sources said that during the four month FY16-17 the ASO impounded 44 offending vehicles amounting of Rs47950000 adding that abduction of offending vehicles is very important to discourage the smuggling trends, the offending vehicles played central role to promote smuggling activities.
