Customs, Inland Revenue officials penalized
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has suspended an official of Pakistan Customs for three months on charges of inefficiency. According to a notification, the FBR said that the decision had...
View ArticleDismissal of bureaucrats’ promotion; Establishment Division to challenge IHC...
KARACHI: The Islamabad High Court Single Bench has passed an order and dismissed all the promotions notified in the civil bureaucracy for being in violation of the rules. IHC has also directed to...
View ArticleCustoms Intelligence & Investigation conference held in Islamabad
KARACHI: Director General Intelligence & Investigation Customs Lutfullah Virk headed the Directors Conference in Islamabad on Tuesday. The Conference was attended by six Customs Intelligence...
View ArticleMCC Preventive seizes liquor worth Rs20 million
KARACHI: MCC Preventive has seized a liquor consignment at East Wharf valuing around Rs20 million. It was imported from Jabel Ali and a Transshipment (TP) was filed for Peshawar. The importer had...
View ArticleCLARIFICATION: Dismissal of bureaucrats’ promotion; Establishment Division to...
Apropos to the news captioned ’Dismissal of bureaucrats promotion; Establishment Division to challenge IHC order’, it is stated that the order of Islamabad High Court was under-reported. As the...
View ArticlePromotions not dismissed; IHC directs Establishment Division to re-frame...
KARACHI: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has directed Establishment Division to reframe the formula pertaining to the promotions of civil servants and ordered that the cases of employees of BS-21 for...
View ArticleFBR notifies revised advance tax rates on motor vehicles registration and...
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has notified revised rates of withholding tax for Section 231B of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 effective July 01, 2015. Advance tax on purchase,...
View ArticleManzoor Memon desperate to avoid his transfer from the office of Collector...
KARACHI: Collector MCC Appraisement East Manzoor Memon, who has illegally holding transport permits of consignments being transported to Lahore dry port, has also put three officers on duty-off for...
View ArticlePromotion of several Grade-20, Grade-19 Customs officers on the cards
KARACHI: After the Islamabad High Court has advised Establishment Division to revise promotion formula and referred the cases of several officers for reconsideration, a number of officers are likely to...
View ArticleFBR reshuffles top brass of Pakistan Customs Service
KARACHI: As was anticipated, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has notified large-scale transfers and postings in Pakistan Customs Service as Grade 21 and Grade-20 officers have been reshuffled. The...
View ArticleEstablishment Division notifies nominations of BS-20 officers for management...
KARACHI: The Establishment Division has notified nomination of BS-20 officers for 103rd National Management Course (NMC) at National Management College Lahore. The BS-20 officers of Pakistan Customs...
View ArticleFBR high-ups reach Dubai to discuss tax policy issues with IMF
KARACHI: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Tariq Bajwa has left for Dubai on Friday to attend the meeting with IMF, Member Customs Nisar Mohammad Khan is already in Dubai for this purpose. The...
View ArticleGovernment increases sales tax on import, supply of petroleum products
KARACHI: The Federal Government has revised the rate of sales tax on import and supplies of petroleum products with effect from August 01, 2015. According to SRO 720(I)/2015, sales tax at the rate of...
View ArticleTribunal strikes down fines & penalties imposed on mobile accessories importer
KARACHI: The Customs Appellate Tribunal has set aside the order passed by Customs Adjudication imposing fines and penalties on mobile accessories importer namely M/s Abdul Aziz & Brothers....
View ArticleSteel importers challenge regulatory duty imposed vide SRO 18(I)/2015
KARACHI: Over a hundred iron/steel importers have approached Sindh High Court challenging the legality of SRO No. 18(I)/2015, which has imposed 5.0 percent regulatory duty on flat rolled products of...
View ArticleUS Consulate General Economic Officer meets PAJCCI office bearers
KARACHI: Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce & Industry (PAJCCI) would take all steps to promote bilateral trade across the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan and to bring the parallel...
View ArticleTwo accused to NATO/ISAF cargo pilferage get bail after 4 months
KARACHI: The Customs Court has granted bail to two of the accused involved in the pilferage of NATO/ISAF container. These include Saad Zulfiqar Manager DP World and Malik Asad of M/s Port Connection....
View ArticleMCC Appraisement East illegally holding TPs destined to dry port Lahore
KARACHI: Iron and steel industry in Lahore is running short of raw material as MCC Appraisement East has illegally stopped transshipment (TP) of their consignments imported from China for home...
View ArticlePost Clearance Audit Karachi makes record performance in July
KARACHI: The Directorate of Post Clearance Audit has made remarkable performance in the month of July 2015 and detected 25 cases involving revenue of Rs62.888 million. Post Clearance Audit headed by...
View ArticleImportant offices lying vacant as postings of Grade-20 officers are awaited
KARACHI: As the recently promoted officers of Pakistan Customs Service have assumed their new officers a couple of important officers are lying vacant as transfers and postings of Grade-20 officers are...
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