MULTAN: Customs Appellate Tribunal will hear tax evasion case of Rs 772 million against Q-mobile on November 11 (today).
According to details, the Model of Customs Collectorate Multan filed a review appeal against Order-In-Original of Collector Customs Adjudication-I issued by Dr. Farid Iqbal Qureshi after hearing.
The Model of Customs Collectorate Multan detected the Q-Mobile case in August 2014.The Adjudication-I concluded the case after rejecting the view point of MCC-Multan in the final verdict in which the MCC Multan established tax evasion case against M/s Q-Mobile and its authorized dealers i.e. M/s Digicom and M/s New Allied Electronics.
The Model of Customs Collectorate Multan seized more than 900 cell phones of the Q-Mobiles during an action against them. During further investigations, a tax evasion case was surfaced in the month of August-2014 in which the MCC-Multan in its contravention report stated that the cellular company i.e. M/s Q-Mobile was involved in tax evasion of Rs.772 million in imports of around 2.4 million cellular phones of different characteristics.
The MCC-Multan established a case of massive tax evasion against M/s Q-Mobile and its authorized dealers, in which it stated that the company imported around 2.4 million smart phones and tried to evade duty/taxes worth Rs 772 million. MCC-Multan were of the view that the cellular company i.e. Q-Mobile was paying sales tax @ Rs.250 against the import of each smart phone while the other cellular companies including Samsung, Blackberry and Nokia had been paid sales tax @Rs 500 on import of such smart phones which were identical to the mobile phones imported by Q Mobile.
Collector Adjudication given the final verdict in the favour of Q-Mobile Company in tax evasion of Rs 772 million on the grounds that case formed by the MCC Multan was not cleared from the jurisdiction of MCC Multan.
The Model of Customs Collectorate Multan filed the review appeal petition against the Q-Mobile tax evasion case after consultation with the Federal Board of Revenue on legal infirmity of case against Q-Mobile dealers.
While Model of Customs Collectorate Multan has still its point of view that Q-Mobile and its authorized dealers have never denied from the allegations surfaced by MCC Multan and they have contested the case that their import consignment was cleared from jurisdiction of Karachi Preventive. Q-Mobile, which is one of the largest selling mobile phones in Pakistan and expanded rapidly during past few years is facing tax evasion case formed by MCC Multan. Q-Mobile released their cell phones through Collector’s final verdict that it does not exist in the jurisdiction of MCC Multan.
Assistant Registrar II Sajjad Ahmad Janjua fixed hearing for 11th November in Q-mobile tax evasion case of Rs 772 million.
Assistant Collector Faizan Badar will attend the hearing of Q-Mobile tax evasion case on the directions of Collector Customs Sarfraz Ahmad Warraich to contest Q-mobile tax evasion case and Advocate Afzal Bhatti will represent Q-mobile in Customs Appellate Tribunal.
