FBR Chairman Tariq Bajwa and Member Customs Nisar Muhammad Ali Khan visit Karachi Customs House and Inland Revenue Services
They make it clear there is no room for corrupt and inefficient officials in Pakistan Customs Service
KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Tariq Bajwa and Member Customs Nisar Muhammad Ali Khan on Tuesday held meetings with officials of the Pakistan Customs and Inland Revenue Services (IRS) during their one-day visit to Karachi.
During the meetings, both the high-ups stressed upon revenue generation and measures against revenue leakages and corrupt practices.
Chief Collector-Appraisement-South Nasir Masroor Ahmed, Chief Collector-South (Enforcement) Muhammad Nazim Saleem, Director General Customs Valuation Rubina Athar, Director General of the Directorate of Transit Trade Khawar Farid Maneka, Director Transit Trade Ibrahim Vighio, Director Input Output Co-efficient Organisation Shahnaz Maqbool, Collector MCC-Preventive SM Tariq Huda, Collector MCC, Appraisement-East Najeebur Rehman Abbasi, Collector MCC Appraisement-West Muhammad Saleem, Collector MCC Port Qasim Surriya Butt and officers of Inland Revenue Services (IRS) attended the meetings.
Bajwa and Khan made it clear that there was no room for corrupt and inefficient officials in the Pakistan Customs Service (PCS).
The FBR chairman emphasised on achieving revenue targets and keeping vigilant eye on unscrupulous importers to detect duty and tax fraud.
Bajwa also lauded the efforts of the field formation collectorates in meeting revenue targets during current fiscal year 2014-15.
Later on, Collector MCC-Preventive SM Tariq Huda, Collector MCC, Appraisement-East Najeebur Rehman Abbasi, Collector MCC Appraisement-West Muhammad Saleem and Collector MCC Port Qasim Surriya Butt briefed Bajwa and Khan about the current status of the revenue collection and imports.
The FBR head urged the customs officials to keep the same pace of revenue collection. Later on, both the FBR high-ups departed for Islamabad in the evening.