PESHAWAR: The customs authorities presented cars for auction through the Government Auctioneer in different state warehouses under the Model Customs Collectorate Peshawar.
The Customs Act-1969 describes the domain of the customs authorities to dispose of non-duty paid vehicles, both tampered and non-tampered, in the province recycled from different departments after the use.
The official at the Model Customs Collectorate Peshawar told Customs Today on Friday that the lists of non-duty paid vehicles have been prepared in which ten cars of different models were included.
The numbers of cars kept in state warehouse Mardan were 20. In the same way, there are six cars in the state warehouse Abbottabad and one in Agha Khan Education Service Pakistan.
The customs authorities have sought the lists of non-duty paid vehicles so that the process of re-seizure of non-duty paid vehicles, auctioned by the Excise Department, could be initiated with immediate effect.
The non-duty paid tampered vehicles should be provided to any federal or provincial department on payment of token charges and, after exhausting their useful life, these vehicles should be returned to the customs collectorate for disposal, he added.
The Excise and Taxation Department (E&T) argued that as per Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Road Checking, Seizure and Disposal of Motor Vehicles) Rules 2015, the vehicles, either custom-paid or non-customs paid and registered or registered with fake documents when seized, will be disposed of under the law by the E& T Department.
However the customs didn’t agree to the argument of the Excise Department, and the opinion of the Law Department was sought in this respect, he confronted.
The representative of the Law Department informed the meeting that there existed some inconsistency in the federal and province laws on the matter and under the Article 143 of the Constitution and in case of any contradiction between the two laws, the federal law will prevail, he concluded.
