LAHORE: Punjab Excise and Taxation Department’s motor branch has achieved tax collection target of Rs7 billion.
E&T Director General Akram Ashraf Gondal had Deputed Director Motor Branch Muhammad Asif in 2016 after which Director Asif asked the department not to interfere in his working procedure. Director Motor Branch Asif started working in his own way and started crackdown on fake computerised number plates and its manufacturers after the Motor Vehicle Amendment Act 2016 by provincial legislators.
The crackdown was launched in August 2016 under Section 97A against the illegal number plates and its manufacturers by the Excise Motor Branch teams.
More than 0.1 million number plates had been removed by the excise teams under the supervision of Director Motor Branch Asif in various parts of the provincial capital during the last eleven months.
