KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday issued notices to FBR and other respondents for filing their comments in a case pertaining to the recovery of taxes on consumed energy (gas) from M/S Moonlite Private Limited.
A single judge comprising Justice Munib Akhter, was hearing an application of the M/S Moonlite and issued notices to the Revenue Division secretary/ FBR chairman, FBR’s Inland Revenue (IR), sales tax and federal excise (law procedure of exemption) department, Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) zone-II IR commissioner, Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), Karachi and Deputy Attorney General Pakistan.
Earlier, the counsel for the petitioner stated that petitioner is a manufacturer/ exporter of the acrylic blankets, carpet wooden yarn, candlewick products, bcf nylon tufted carpets and upholstery. According to the petitioner, its business activity comes within the five sectors in which the federal government is allowed to charge sales tax at the rate of zero percent.
The petitioner submitted that, suddenly on April 24, 2015, SSGC served a recovery notice on the ground that the customer ID/ gas consumer is not the one as mentioned in sales tax general order (STGO) and therefore the energy supplier advised the petitioner to deposit tax on consumer of energy consumed during January 2008 to October 2013.
The exporter pleaded the SHC to declare recovery notice issued by the SSGC as illegal, mala fide.
