KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) suspended the operation of an impugned show cause notice for recovery of disputed amount of Rs09.3million on a constitutional petition filed by M/s Imperial Trading Corporation seeking restraining order on coercive recovery issued by Officer Inland Revenue Unit-8, Range-C, Zone-IV.
Hearing the petition, a two-member bench, headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, also issued notices to the tax department and deputy attorney general of Pakistan directing them to file their respective comments on next date of hearing.
Earlier, counsel for the petitioner stated that petitioner is a sole proprietary concern and is an importer of tiles and sanitary wares and directly sells them from his retail shop and fulfils all the liabilities regularly, however Officer Inland Revenue Unit-8, Range-C, Zone-IV, issued a show cause notice for above disputed amount. Being aggrieved, it filed an appeal before the appellate forum concerned which is pending for final disposal.
However during the pendency of such appeal, said respondent issued a notice for enforced recovery of said disputed amount from petitioner’s account illegally.
Citing Secretary Revenue Division, the Commissioner Inland Revenue Zone-IV, Regional Tax Office-II, and Officer Inland Revenue Unit-8, Range-C, Zone-IV as respondents, petitioner pleaded with the court to kindly restrain the tax department from enforced recovery till the final decision on its appeal.
