KARACHI: The Customs Exports has served two show cause notices and two final notices on tax defaulters and tax evaders for recovery of dues.
Sources told reporter that Custom Exports issued notices to four companies including M/s Aryan Wajih and Sons, M/s Sehrish Garments, M/s Mubasshir Traders Company and other.
M/s Aryan Wajih used the wrong Pakistan Customs Tariff (PCT) headings to get a consignment of used dresses and different kinds of used crockery cleared on July 22, 2017 and caused the national kitty a loss of Rs4.56million.
During the scrutiny of the import data, the Customs Exports detected the misuse of the PCT heading for which it was issued with a show-cause notice No: 242/2017 for paying the evaded amount of tax and duty.
Meanwhile, the Customs Exports unearthed another tax evasion committed by M/s Sehrish Garments who got cleared a consignment of different wools.
The customs authorities, after a careful investigation, served a show cause notice on the company and asked it to deposit the evaded tax amount into treasury within fortnight.
Another company M/s Mubasshir Traders Company got cleared a consignment of used chairs and sofa sets. The customs authorities issued a final notice and asked to submit all the documents for consignment soon and submit the balance amount.
Source said that, during upcoming seven days, the Customs Exports will investigate three more cases to Karachi related defaulter companies and two defaulter companies belong to Hyderabad for which the Custom Exports will issue more notices.
