ISLAMABAD: Digital Tracking and Coding Association has delivered a presentation to the Federal Board of Revenue and Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue on a modern, fully digital volume control, tracking & tracing and authentication system to promptly detect and fight against illegal trade in Pakistan.
Sources said that the entity has been created by 4 biggest tobacco multi-national companies with the aim to implement globally recognised new standards to fight against illegal trade.
Sources further said that the system is called Codentify. It is a complex coding technology able to guarantee tax verification and authentications tools to protect fiscal revenues and support authorities in tackling illegal trade and business. Any single pack of cigarettes will be provided with a unique code encrypting all the information required by the WHO Anti Illicit Trade Protocol (Pakistan adhered to the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2004). The code is not replicable and will be generated during the production of any single pack, carton and shipping case, so as to constantly keep a track by the authorities along the supply chain.
According to the sources, the system is applicable to any other legitimate product affected by the illicit trade and represents a convenient and effective alternative to traditional or complex papers stamps. The technology will be fully controlled and managed by FBR or by Pral, so as to guarantee complete transparency and integrity of the system.
