Oil tankers catches fire at Kemari oil terminal
KARACHI: A fire broke out at a tanker during the oil filling at oil terminal Kemari, but any major mishap was averted and fire was controlled in a very short time. This incident brings many things to...
View ArticleM/s Kingcrete Builders served notice to pay duty and taxes
KARACHI: As the Islamabad High Court has dismissed their petition, MCC Appraisement West has served a notice on M/s Kingcrete Builders to pay Rs8.85 million into the national exchequer. On the...
View ArticleChief Collector Appraisement South transfers 5 Principal Appraisers
KARACHI: The Chief Collector Appraisement South Abdul Rasheed Sheikh has transferred five Principal Appraisers within his jurisdiction with immediate effect. The officials transferred included Khalid...
View ArticleMCC Gwadar foils bid to smuggle 800 liquor bottles, 774 beer tins worth Rs...
KARACHI: Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) Gwadar has foiled a bid to smuggle 800 bottles of liquor worth Rs 28 million and 774 tins of beer worth Rs 464,400. On a tip of to Saeed Akram Collector of...
View ArticleSHC orders framing of legal issues in Income tax evasion case against hospital
KARACHI: Justice Muhammad Junaid Ghaffar of High Court of Sindh ordered framing of legal issues in a suit filed by Hill Park General Hospital pertaining to alleged income tax evasion of millions of...
View ArticleSHC dispose of petition by accused, customs in Afghan transit trade missing...
Karachi: A divisional bench of High Court of Sindh disposed of a constitution petition filed by an importer Rector International on a joint request by petitioner as well as Pakistan Custom,...
View ArticleMCC Quetta keeps strict check on movement of smuggled goods
KARACHI: MCC Quetta has seized huge quantity of smuggled goods including auto parts, auto engines etc worth Rs19.005 million. In pursuance of credible information received by the Collector of Customs...
View ArticleEstablishment Division approves additional nominations for 19th SMC
KARACHI: The Establishment Division has notified additional nominations of BS-19 or equivalent officers for 19th senior management course (SMC) from February 15, 2016 to July 01, 2016. The Inland...
View ArticleClassification Committee determines PCT 8507.2090 appropriate for lead acid...
KARACHI: The Customs Classification Committee has determined PCT 8507.2090 as the appropriate heading for lead acid (VRLA) batteries. The Committed is headed by Additional Collector Haris Ansari and...
View ArticleSmuggling of mobile phones; Customs ASO folds raid on resistance
KARACHI: Customs Intelligence & Investigation (ASO) faced severe resistance during a raid on Star Mobile market Friday evening and had to fold the operation. According to the details, the...
View ArticleTaxpayers unable to e-file withholding tax statements
KARACHI: FBR’s IT wing, Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) has not been able to fix the bugs in the system due to which a large number of taxpayers are unable to e-file withholding tax...
View ArticleFBR seeks pro-revenue proposals for budget 2016-17
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has advised all the formations to furnish pro-revenue budgetary proposals for the federal budget 2016-17 byMarch 02, 2016. FBR has advised that the proposals...
View ArticleCrackdown against smugglers and non-duty paid smuggled vehicles launched
ISLAMABAD: Directorate General of Customs Intelligence Federal Bard of Revenue (FBR) and Model Customs Collectorates (MCCs) for the first time jointly launched major crackdown against smuggles and...
View ArticleHearing of SCRA’s in Motorcycle Shock Absorber case adjourned until March 16
KARACHI: The hearing of more than half a dozen Special Customs Reference Applications (SCRA’s) and constitution petitions was adjourned until March 16 here on Monday by a divisional bench of High Court...
View ArticleFBR collects Rs.1664 bln in revenues till Feb 15 Revenue collection up by 18...
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has realized Rs.1664 billion revenues upto February 15 against the collections of Rs.1404 billion taxes in the same period of last fiscal year, showing an...
View ArticleFBR limits duty exemption on LEDs/SMDs lights
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has limited Customs duty exemption to such LED/SMD lights only where the operable voltage does not exceed 60 volts. MCC Islamabad had sought clarification...
View ArticleSITE Superhighway welcome LNG deal with Qatar
KARACHI: President S.I.T.E Superhighway Association of Industries, Karachi Mehtab Uddin Chawla and other office bearers have appreciated the agreement of import of LNG deal with Qatar. Mehtab Chawla...
View ArticleMajor penalty imposed on three MCC Port Qasim officials
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has imposed major penalty on three BS-16 officials of MCC Port Qasim. Principal Appraiser Ghulam Murtaza, Examining Officers S.M. Fawad and Ms. Khizra Saeed...
View ArticleSoap case adjourned as Local Manufacturers Association intervenes
KARACHI: The hearing of ten Special Customs References and petition in toilet soap valuation cases was adjourned till March 03 by an appellate bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Justice...
View ArticleSHC suspends order of single judge saving natural gas consumers from...
KARACHI: A divisional bench of Sindh High Court (SHC) comprising Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan on Tuesday suspended interim orders passed by a single judge of SHC...
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