KARACHI: The legal representative of New Allied Electronics (Private) Limited, Mian Pervez, has attended Collector of the Customs Adjudication-I on behalf of Digicom (Private) Limited (authorised dealer of Q-Mobile) against the show-cause notice served by the collectorate in tax evasion of Rs 772 million on import of 2.4 million mobile phones.
The legal representative, Mian Pervez requested the Customs Adjudication-I for adjournment of the hearing for couple of months. The new date of hearing has also not yet decided as the minutes of the hearing were not concluded.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Collectorate of Customs Adjudication-I has served show-cause notices on New Allied Electronic and Digicom (Private) Limited, the authorised dealers of Q-Mobile on its alleged involvement of tax evasion worth Rs 772 million.
Moreover, the cellular companies have already challenged the SRO280/2013 in Islamabad High Court and adopted the view point that FBR after introduction of 18th amendment was not authorised to issue any SRO without the consent of Prime Minister of Pakistan. However, SRO280/2013 permitted that the Head of Department/Ministry can issue any SRO, as the 18th amendment delegates the power to ministry concerned to issue SRO.
