HYDERABAD: The MCC Hyderabad has received Rs418.329million revenue during 16 days of August 2017-18.
According to details, Hyderabad and Sukkur divisions have generated Customs Duty of Rs59.345million, Sales Tax of Rs346.673million, Special FED on Imports Rs1.500million and With Holding Tax ofRs10.811 million by August 16, 2017-18.
The major tax sources include unit of Sukkur (OMC & Rima cooking oil) SWH, Sukkur Directorate Sukkur Dry Port, Hyderabad Bonded Warehouse BWHs, SWH State Warehouse, Export Hyderabad and KPR (Zero Point) Huffaz Seamless Pipe Industries, Crescent Steel, Omni Polymer Industries, and Pakistan State Oil.
The Model Customs Collectorate Hyderabad, Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO), also impounded Non-Duty-Paid vehicles including three oil tankers filled with110,000 liter of Iranian smuggled High Speed Diesel I (HSD), foreign origin Non-Duty-Paid smuggled cigarettes of different brands including Pine Light of Korea, Reds Virgin of England, foreign origin cloths and other contraband items. The computer sets, CPUs of Dell, hard discs, different GB DVDs, laptops auto parts, cosmetics, table lamps, and mobile accessories, motor bikes, automatic juice blenders, door closers, mobile phone sets, mobile batteries, 1.1million liter of Iranian diesel in the month of July which include three oil tankers worth million of rupees, and other goods worth million of rupees were also confiscated during the month of July 2017-18.
Under the supervision of Hyderabad Customs Collector Akhlaq Ahmad Khattaq, Additional Collector Rehmatulah Vistro, Deputy Collector Mushtaq Ali Shahni, Deputy Collector Dry Port Zam Zam Aman, Principal Appraiser Mashuq Ali Panhwar, Appraiser Ashir and Superintendent Statistical Revenue played an important role in revenue collection, officials said.
They added that the anti-smuggling campaign is in full swing in the region following the direction of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and Collector Akhlaq Ahmad Khattaq in order to enhance the revenue generation.