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PM Imran Khan resolved to battle poverty, illiteracy, injustice and corruption in year 2019. | See pAge 06 | tAKing meASuReS
Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi decided to take measures to make KPT corruption-free. | See pAge 03 | AppReCiAting peRfoRmAnCe
FBR lauded performance of Customs Collectorate Islamabad to achieve revenue collection target. | See pAge 02 | ASSigning CHARge
CollectorFaizAhmad assignedlookafterchargeto ADCTayyebaKiyani, DCNaveedBugvi. | See pAge 02 |
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fter uncovering of the alleged scam of Maersk Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, now it has been unearthed that PaciTic International Lines (PIL) along with its agent in Pakistan, PaciTic Delta Shipping Pvt. Ltd, have also reportedly evaded sales tax to the tune of billions of rupees. Customs Today reported extensively about alleged mega sales tax scam of Maersk Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd where the company in connivance with its agents, audit Tirms and some ofTicials of Sindh Revenue Board evaded billions of rupees sales tax in terms of services provided to its local clients. After extensive coverage of the issue by Customs Today, the Sindh Chief Secretary through diary no 29342 had asked the Sindh Revenue Board to probe the issue and take action against Maersk Pakistan within 15 days. According to the application ref#164/CIJ/10/2018 sent on 27-1018 appealed to take legal action, recoveries of amounts looted, recovering losses of tens of billions of rupees to the national exchequer per year while also stopping such further losses in the biggest mega scam of sales tax on services fraud from the accused persons SØREN SKOU, CLAUS V. HEMMINGSEN, SØREN TOFT, VINCENT CLERCP, MORTEN H. ENGELSTOFT, others of Maersk Line; Arslan Khan, Hazanfar Khan, Raheel Salim, Maqsood Ul Hasan Khan, Fuad Khan, Hasan Faraz, Shakeel Masih, Omer Khan, Ali Jawad Alvi, Zafar Iqbal, Ayesha Chowdhry, Zahid
Hussain, Salman Ahmad, Aamir Ali, Umais Aziz Khan, Mohammed Naeem, Farheen Mahmud, Mubasshar Iqbal Affaq Syed, Syed Mohammad Abbas Jafri, Muhammad Tanveer Sharif, Salman Ateeq, Hamza Haq, Ziad Mahboob, Aamir Ibrahim, Yasir Saeed Khan, Amal Sadiq Dawood, Effat Mehmood, Maria Urooj, Zain Warsi, Mehreen ZulTiqar, Awais Saleem, Zafar Iqbal, Syed Osman Iqbal Zaidi, Anum Yaqub, Fahad Ali, , Obaid Iqbal, Zahid Hussain, Muhammad Ali Qureshi, Danish Siddiqui, Amir Arif, Arshad Ayub, Syed Mudassir Ali, Syed Hammad Hussain, Ayesha Qadri, Sheikh Samiullah, others of M/S Maersk Pakistan Private Limited; audit Tirms and other shipping companies of Pakistan, some ofTicials of Sindh Revenue Board involved in the mega scam directly or in connivance with the same. Now it is revealed that PaciTic International Lines (PIL) along with its agent in Pakistan, PaciTic Delta Shipping Pvt. Ltd, also evaded sales tax worth billions of rupees, possibly with connivance of a few ofTicials of the SRB ofTicials. Relevant quarters say that Commissioner II of the Sindh Revenue Board was bound by the NotiTication No. 3-4/20/2017 to collect sales tax on services from the shipping lines as mentioned in point 15 of the table which is also available on the ofTicial website of Sindh Revenue Board (http://www.srb.gos.pk/contents/No tiTications/SRB-3-4.20.2017.PDF). Business community says that Commissioner II, instead of keeping mum over the issue, should fulTil his duties and collect sales tax from Maersk, PaciTic Delta Shipping Pvt. Ltd. and also recover the evaded sales tax worth billions and also lodge FIR against the Maersk, PaciTic Delta Shipping Pvt. Ltd. ofTicials like Adil Khan for the huge scam so that others do not commit such criminal evasion of sales taxes. Such funds so collected will go a long way in developing our country. According to a document of Sindh Revenue Board named Working Tariff (amended up to 4th December, 2017), the shipping lines are bound to pay at least 13% sales tax on services as mentioned in table which is also available on its ofTicial website (http://www.srb.gos.pk/contents/Do wnloads/20171204007_WORKING_TARIFF_AMENDED_2017.pdf). Continued on page 09
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m/s Sagheer enterprises approaches SHC seeking filing fresh tp permit
KARACHI: M/s Sagheer Enterprises approached the Sindh High Court (SHC) for acceptance of his application for cancellation of transhipment permit and for filing a fresh TP for destination to the customs NLC Dry Port Quetta. Counsel for the petitioner stated in his constitutional petition that petitioner in the normal course of business is active importer & exporter and imported a consignment of auto spare parts and other goods, which arrived at Karachi Port.
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/s Talha Enterprises moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) against enhancement of the valuation of a consignment of Head & Shoulder shampoo $1.10 instead of $0.22. Counsel for the petitioner stated in his constitutional petition that petitioner in the normal course of business imported a consignment of Head & Shoulder shampoo 22,724 kgs for $4,999.28 against the mutual agreement/understanding accepting the value against the supplies and filed goods declaration. He argued that petitioner paid the leviable amount of duty and taxes to the tune of Rs82,945.00 in the NBP, Customs House, Branch, Karachi and never mis-declared description, classification, quantity, origin etc which transpires that the importer is fair and honest. He said that customs department refused to clear the imported goods on declared value for $0.22 and assessed the goods declaration on enhanced value as per Valuation Ruling No. 849/2016 dated 06/05/2016 regarding C-Category Brands for $1.10 instead, consequently the import duty and others taxes were enhanced, without any cogent evidence/specific reasons, without considering the subject goods are imported against the contract agreement. He further argued that petitioner was shocked when he was informed that his user ID password/ NTN number has been blocked without issuance any show cause notice, without any speaking order regarding any outstanding or short recovery. Citing chairman FBR as respondent, importer pleaded the court to direct the respondents to de-block/restore user ID.
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Collector Saeed Akram ollectorate of Customs Appraisement East collected Rs33423.04 million during the month of December 2018 under heads of all duty and taxes. According to details, Appraisement East collected Rs10548.47 million under the head of customs duty (CD), Rs11549.78 million as sales tax (ST), Rs11247.54 as income tax (IT) and Rs 79.25 as federal excise duty (FED). Earlier in the month of November, Appraisement East collected Rs38808.55 million during the month of November 2018 under head of all duty and taxes which included Rs11245.78 million under the head of customs duty (CD), Rs12748.41 million as sales tax (ST), Rs14724.24 as income tax (IT) and Rs 89.58 as federal excise duty (FED).
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ederal Board of Revenue (FBR) lauded the performance of the Customs Collectorate Islamabad to achieve revenue collection target and said it has set an example for other collectorates. The Board also hoped that the Collectorate will show the same spirit and performance in the future. Member Customs Jawad Awais Agha extended congratulations on this success and appreciated the performance of Collector ZulTiqar Ali Chauhdary, other ofTicers and staff members. It is important to mention here that Customs collectorate has achieved the revenue target for the six months of the current Tinancial year (2018-19) and collected Rs10710 million under the head of customs duty and sales tax against the assigned revenue collection target of Rs9878 million. The collectorate collected Rs3618 million under the head of customs duty against the set target of Rs3593 million while Rs4800 million were collected under the head of sales tax against the assigned target of Rs4092 million. Collector ZulTiqar Chuahdary said this is a teamwork and the credit also goes to Additional Collector Dry Port Muhammad Ishfaq Khan, Additional Collector Airport Nisar Ahmed and all the ofTicers and staff of the collectorate. He hoped the ofTicers and staff of the collectorate will continue their hard work in the interest of the country.
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ne of the most competent ofTicers of Pakistan Customs Services (PCS) and Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Rawalpindi, Abdul Waheed Marwat will represent Federal Board of Revenue in Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Asia PaciTic group meeting which will be held from January 8-10, 2019. Prime Minister Imran Khan on the recommendation of Finance Minister Asad Umar and Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Jahanzaib Khan approved the name of Abdul Waheed Marwat. It is pertinent to mention here that the government through laws has empowered the Customs Intelligence
Collector Faiz assigns look after charge to Tayyeba Kayani & Naveedur Rehman ustoms Collectorate of Preventive Collector Faiz Ahmad assigned look after charge to Additional Collector Tayyeba Kiyani and Deputy Collector Naveedur Rehman Bugvi. The separate office orders issued by the collector stated that due to leaves applied by Additional Collector Farukh Sharif and Deputy Collector Muhammad Moazzam Raza, both officials are ordered to look after the work of deputy collector and additional collector in addition to duties already assigned to them till further orders.—M Hayat
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ustoms Adjudication Additional Collector Asma Hameed ordered to release foreign origin fresh apples after the payment of duties and taxes and also directed to release Hino truck being used for smuggling. As per details, the Staff of Customs ASO Mianwali received information that huge quantity of foreign origin apples would be smuggled.The anti-smuggling staff intercepted a Hino truck bearing registration no: TKW-093 near Chandni Chowk. During checking of vehicle, ASO team recovered 18000 kilograms fresh apples packed in cartons.The driver of the vehicle failed to provide any relevant documents regarding import and transportation of these apples. ASO team seized the apples and forwarded the case to Customs Adjudication. On behalf of the respondents, Asmatullah requested to release apples on payment of all legal duty and taxes. After hearing the arguments, Additional Collector Asma Hameed ordered to release the apples on payment of duty & taxes after proper assessment of Faisalabad Appraisement branch according to customs rules and regulations.
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& Investigations (I&I) to take action against money launderers. It is important to mention here that delegation comprising 12 members will participate in the meeting with
experts of Tinancial action task force and brief them about the implementation of 27 points agenda to curb the menace of money laundering and counter Tinance terrorism.
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Customs Court sends suspects on remand in betel nuts smuggling case
KARACHI: The Customs Court sent suspects namely Rehan, Sarfarz Khan, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Iqbal and Sher Ali Khan to customs preventive on physical remand who are booked in a case of attempting to smuggle 55,800 kilograms betel nuts. Investigation officer produced the above-mentioned suspects before the court and informed that on an actionable information customs officials intercepted three Mazda mini trucks bearing registration no: PS-3684, PX-3786 and JZ-0935 near Chawala Godown, Main Hawks Bay Road, Mauripur Road, Karachi.
FBR field formations adjust wrong adjustment of input tax worth Rs2266m
Ali Zaidi resolves to make his ministry & Kpt corruption-free
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inister for Maritime Affairs Syed Ali Zaidi has decided to take measures to make his ministry and the department including Karachi Port Trust totally corruption-free. Talking with Customs Today he said that no corruption will be tolerated in the ministry and its departments and warned that stern action will be taken against the corrupt elements. He said ‘if any person has any complaint against staff of ministry or its attached departments, he should directly contact me at my whatsapp number 0300-4322280 and E-mail: (anticorruptionmoma@gmail.com). He said, “I myself will take up the matter and deal it accordingly; and if anyone found involved in corrupt practices, he would be punished”. He also instructed to the public that proof of corruption should also be provided with the complaint. The minister said as minister of maritime affairs ‘it is my duty to make all ports completely corruption-free’. He said Allah has blessed Pakistan with unlimited natural and marine resources and such a country should give loans to other countries instead of begging for loans. The minister hoped that people will cooperate with the ministry to improve the performance of the ports. He further stated that Prime Minister Imran Khan has made it clear to end the corruption from the country.
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ederal Board of Revenue field formations Lahore, Multan and Karachi adjusted tax amount of Rs2266 million on wrong claimed adjustment of input tax by four companies, without fulfilling the conditions of law. According to the details, Federal Board of Revenue took the serious notice of this irregularity and directed to the field formations for expeditious recovery through adjudication proceedings and fix the responsibility against involved in malpractice. FBR also directed to improve the monitoring process of input tax adjustment. M/S Total Parco marketing limited ( NTN 0786904-5) registered with Large Taxpayer unit Karachi adjusted input tax credit on the basis of purchase invoices of petroleum products issued to them. This resulted in inadmissible adjustment of input tax of Rs2,170.86 million. Likewise M/s Haleeb Foods Limited (NTN 1207069-6) registered with Large Taxpayer unit Lahore adjusted input tax paid on the goods such as vehicles, petroleum products, parts of vehicle, entertainments, wire and cable which was not admissible under the law. This resulted in inadmissible adjustment of input tax of Rs76.45 million. M/s Ghani Packages (NTN 1202083-4) registered regional tax office Multan claimed input tax adjustment credit against certain invoices. The registered person was involved in production of paper cone and, the raw material for production of paper cone was paper board which ranges average rate between Rs. 30 to Rs.40 per kilogram but the registered person claimed input tax in which the average purchase rate ranges between Rs75 to Rs110 per kilogram.
Meanwhile, Ministry of Maritime Affairs has directed the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) management to pursue the court case against the Vessel Company M.T “Tasman Spirit” vigorously and the update position regarding the losses should be reported. It is important to mention here that the vessel M.T. Tasman Spirit, while entering Karachi Port laden with fuel oil, grounded near the entrance to Karachi harbour and
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thereafter broke into two cases of spilling which caused loss to Karachi Port Trust. The management of Karachi Port Trust Tiled a case of damages of Rs102,649 million in the court and after many hearings, the suite is still pending. Karachi Port Trust has demanded charges of Rs12,890 million as damage to KPT property i.e. off shore clean in, beach cleaning including removal of oily sand, dumping of oily sand and capping, removal
of polluted sediments from back water areas and re-growing mangroves and other plants, disposal of dredging spoil from harbor and damages to marine structure. Likewise, Defense OfTicers Housing Authority, Fisheries department, Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works, Environment Protection Agency, Pakistan Navy and citizen claimed Rs68,738. In the head of economic and consequential loss, KPT management claimed Rs10,961 million.
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Customs preventive recovers betel nuts near maripur
KARACHI: Collectorate of Customs Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) recovered huge quantity of smuggled betel nuts and arrested two culprits on the spot. The raid was conducted with the help of Maripur Police Station. According to the details, Deputy Collector Headquarters Muhammad Faisal constituted a team to conduct a raid over the information of betel nuts smuggling through land route. During the operation, the staff beefed up security and surveillance at the entry and exit points of the city against the illegal activities of the smugglers.
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ederal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cybercrime Wing Lahore Deputy Director Chaudhry Sarfraz conducted a successful raid in Badami Bagh area and arrested the accused involved in a heinous crime of child pornography. According to details, information was received through a reliable source that a person namely Imdad Ali is involved in henious crime of child pornography by making pictures and videos of (minor girls) aging between 5-8 years. upon reciept of this information and keeping in view the sensitivity and seriousness of the matter, a raiding team comprising senior officers of Cybercrime FIA Lahore namely Ch. Sarfraz DD, Muhammad usman DD/Incharge, Ashir Aroon SI and Tanvir FC was constituted by the Director Cyber Crime HQ Islamabad to conduct raid. The team planned the raid after collecting Mobile Geographical Locations and static surveillance for identifying the house of the culprit Imdad Ali. During the raid, the accused was present at the identified house i.e. 67-A, Street No. 19, Masoom Shah Road, Badami Bagh, Lahore. The Raiding Team after initial interrogation recovered the digital media of the accused containing pictures & videos of the minor girls. The accused confessed his guilt. upon further pointation, another nearby house was also identified where the accused used to take the minor girls inducing them for some sweet candies and money for making pornographic videos and pictures. The accused namely Imdad Ali S/O Barkat Ali R/o Badami Bagh has been arrested after registration of Case FIR No. 01 / 2019 and the digital media (Mobile Phone, Memory Cards etc.) took into possesion of Cybercrime FIA Lahore.
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he Customs North Region earned extra revenue of Rs198 million under all heads of duty and taxes against allocated revenue collection target of Rs24525 million for the Tirst half of Fiscal Year 2018-19. Sources told Customs Today that Customs North Region comprising (Islamabad, Peshawar, Sialkot and Gilgit Baltistan) showed outstanding performance under the supervision of Chief Collector North Wasif Ali Memon. During the above-said period, the North Region assigned Rs24525 million under all heads for the period of July to December, Fiscal Year 2018-19 while Customs North Region fetched Rs24724 million against the assigned target. Customs North earned Rs5.72 million additional revenue under the head of customs duty (CD) during July to December FY18-19 against the same period of corresponding FY17-18 whereas the Customs North fetched Rs395.87 million extra revenue under head of sales tax (ST) against assigned target for current Tirst half (July to December) FY18-19. The sources informed that during Tirst half of FY18-19, the North region earned Rs62.14 million extra revenue under head of Federal Excise Duty (FED) while it received Rs265 million extra revenue under head of Income Tax (IT) against assigned revenue collection target. The sources told that Wasif Ali Memon appreciated all the Customs Collectorates working under
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he Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has reshuffled the top hierarchy of Pakistan Customs Service, as BS-21 and BS-20 officers have been moved. Chief Collector Appraisement South Abdul Rasheed Sheikh (BS-21) is transferred and posted Director General, Directorate General of Post Clearance Audit, Islamabad. He will also look after the charge of Director General, Directorate General of Internal Audit (Customs), Islamabad in addition to his own duties. Surayya Ahmed Butt (BS-21) is moved from the office of Director General, Directorate General of Customs Valuation, Karachi and posted as Chief Collector Appraisement South. Sarfaraz Ahmed Warraich (BS-21) is moved from the office of Director General, Directorate General of Internal Audit (Customs), Islamabad (stationed at Lahore) and posted as Director General, Directorate General of Transit Trade, Karachi. Wasif Ali Memon (BS-21) is moved from the office of Chief Collector of Customs – North, Islamabad to the office of Chief Collector of Customs (Enforcement) Karachi. Dr. Arslan Subuctageen (BS-20) is transferred from Director, Directorate of Intelligence & Investigation, FBR, Peshawar to Director General (OPS), Directorate General of IPR (Enforcement), Islamabad. He will also look after the charge of Director General (OPS), Directorate General of CPEC, Islamabad in addition to his own duties. Mukarram jah Ansari (BS-20) is moved from Director General, (OPS) Directorate General of Reforms & Automation (Customs), Islamabad to Director General (OPS), Directorate General of Customs Valuation, Karachi.
surpass assigned revenue target for Tirst half of FY18-19.
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he Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has posted a growth of 34 percent by impounding non-customs paid goods and vehicles worth Rs850 million during the Tirst half of the Tinancial year 2018-19 against Rs633 million in the same period last Tinancial year. According to ofTicial data, the ASO registered 15 cases worth Rs20 millions of luxury vehicles and 20 cases of goods and articles worth Rs 358 million in July while
the ASO seized 3 NDP vehicles worth Rs3.5 million and registered 32 cases of NDP goods and articles worth Rs 62 million. Similarly, the ASO conTiscated vehicles, goods worth Rs68 million by registering 18 cases in the month of September while the organization registered 30 cases of NDP vehicles and goods worth Rs117 million during the month of October. The ASO, however, seized no vehicle in the month of November while registered 34 cases of goods and articles worth Rs 98 million. Similarly, the Customs ASO registered 31 cases of NDP vehicles, goods worth Rs119 in the
month of December 2018. The organization in total seized 35 NCP vehicles worth Rs 53 million and registered 183 cases of NDP goods and articles worth Rs 775 million. The ASO intensiTied the crackdown against the smuggled items and vehicles on the direction of Additional Collector Tayyeba Kayani. Special scouts including Inspector Nasir Saeed, Abdul Rehman Butt, Shahid Bhatti and others were constituted under the supervision of Deputy Collector Muhammad Moazzam Raza and Superintendent Agha Qadeer Khan to evaluate the performance. Agha Qadeer Khan said that the
ASO is determined to create maximum deterrence against smugglers with these crackdowns and make a big total of seizures of NDP vehicles and items. Sources said that Chief Collector of Customs Zeba Hai Azhar had instructed all the four collectorates of the central region to bring down the level of smuggling activities in the region. At the start of the Tinancial year, she had issued strict instructions directing the ofTicers to adopt zero tolerance against the smuggling activities. Sources said that the ASO is all set to make a big difference by creating deterrence against the smugglers for the next six months of the Tinancial year.
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operation in the country’s history against money laundering. “We, as a nation, must change our mindset and become a self-reliant nation to prosper economically,” the premier said. He also noted that the “overseas Pakistanis have been abstaining from investing in the country due to corruption and mistreatment.” “Our investors must create an atmosphere of coordination with the overseas Pakistanis,” PM Imran said. “Investors also must ensure assistance, with compassion, to the skilled labour that travels abroad to earn for themselves and their families.” Meanwhile, Federal Finance Minister Asad Umar has said that 2019 will bring prosperity & peace for our beloved country. In his message, on the eve of New Year, the minister said “Happy New Year. I am conTident 2019 will Insha Allah see Pakistan set course on a path of sustained prosperity and peace and laying the foundation of a society equal for all its citizens.
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he circular debt continues to rise in the recent months. If one only looks at the figures being given publically for the total size of the monster, it is alarming to note the steep increase. The power division officials just told the Public Accounts Committee that the figure has now crossed about Rs1.4tr. In August 2018, while testifying before a Senate panel, the same officials had given the figure of Rs1.14tr. This would mean that the circular debt has climbed by more than Rs200bn in the 137 days in between these two dates. For perspective, consider that the same figure stood at Rs922bn at the end of November 2017, meaning that the size of the debt increased faster from August till today than it did in the preceding ten months. This sharp uptick needs focus, and parliamentary bodies have good reason to summon power division officials and ask more detailed questions about where exactly the acceleration in the circular debt is coming from. There are a number of different components of the circular debt, and the power division officialdom is becoming quite adept at presenting the numbers in a way to downplay the problem. For example, one method is to omit the amount held by the Power Holding Pvt Ltd, a specialpurpose vehicle created specifically for the purpose of financing the circular debt for the power sector, and which pays its financial costs via surcharges built into the consumer tariff. Creating confusion around the numbers is a common tactic for officialdom to avoid scrutiny, and in the power sector they are free to indulge in this habit to their full satisfaction. In the same time period, from August 2018 till today, the recommendations of the Special Committee on Circular Debt formed by the Senate have been silently awaiting action. These recommendations include the establishment of a high-level monitoring committee, as well as a slew of deep-rooted reforms. Left to its own devices, with the government working in one corner and the bureaucracy in another, this state of affairs will not abate. The increase in the rate of accumulation is alarming because the circular debt can ultimately shut down the power system and impose nearly crippling costs on the fiscal framework. To get a handle on the situation, the minister needs to develop a standard reporting template for all power sector data, both operational and financial, through which progress can be monitored effectively to control recoveries and keep power sector debt from climbing to unmanageable levels.
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Ever since the 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) award was signed into law in 2009 by the then President, Asif Ali Zardari, after lengthy debates between the centre and the provincial governments represented by different political parties., including Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians at the Centre and in Sindh, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) in Punjab, and the Awami National Party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it was rendered controversial by subsequent federal Tinance ministers. Dr Hafeez Sheikh, who was appointed as the Tinance minister in 2010 subsequent to the resignation of Shaukat Tarin, requested provinces' cooperation in March
2011 to assist in keeping the overall national Tiscal deTicit under control by running surpluses of up to 120 billion rupees during a constitutionally-mandated biannual meeting to discuss monitoring and implementation of the award with provincial Tinance chiefs. And ironically, even Ishaq Dar, who was reportedly engaged in negotiating the 7th NFC award on behalf of the Punjab government criticised it repeatedly at private forums on the grounds that it left inadequate resources with the federal government. The 7th award envisaged reducing the share of the federal government from the divisible pool taxes to 44 percent in 2010-11 and 42 percent and a half from 2011-12 onwards, with the rest going to the provinces according to the following formula: population 82 percent which was possible only after
Punjab agreed to its reduction, poverty and backwardness 10.3 percent, revenue collection or generation 5 percent and inverse population density 2.7 percent. The 18th Constitutional Amendment passed in 2010 devolved social sectors to provinces and it was argued that the NFC award with the amendment would strengthen the provinces' capacity to deal with these sectors while reducing the then annual outlay by the centre on these devolved subjects. It is here that the problem surfaced as provinces took the additional resources but did not develop their own capacity to manage the devolved subjects while the federal government continued to allocate considerable resources to ministries that should have been devolved. In spite of the considerable powers conferred on Ishaq Dar by the then PM Nawaz Sharif, Dar was
unable to convince provinces to change the NFC award in favour of the federal government with Article 160 (3A) of the constitution barring him from unilaterally amending the 7th NFC award formula which stipulates that "the share of the provinces in each award of NFC shall not be less than the share given to the provinces in the previous award." Dar, however, ignored the Article 160 (1) stipulation and never proactively sought an NFC award that was due in 2015. The IMF took up the refrain during its 2013-2016 Extended Fund Facility Programme noting that "in the current round of NFC negotiations the federal government will seek an agreement to better balance devolution of revenue and expenditure responsibilities in a way consistent with the objective of macroeconomic stability."
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Deputy Collector moazzam Raza deputes staff to ensure security
LAHORE: Customs Collectorate of Preventive DC HQ Moazzam Raza deputed additional staff at the disposal of superintendent to ensure the security of official buildings. According to a notification Inspector Muhammad Ashraf, Inspector Faqueer Mohammad, Sepoy Mohammad Ijaz, Sepoy Raza Iqbal, Sepoy Muhammad Hanif, Sepoy Mohammad Waqas will also perform their duties at Gate No. I and II. Inspectors Rana Muhammad Sadiq, Asim Qamar, Sepoys Mahar Khizar Hayat, Abdul Waheed, Imtiaz Ahmed and Shahid Mehmood will perform their duties in shift-II from 1500 hrs to 2200 hrs.
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wRite to uS YouR gRieVAnCeS: Through CuStomS toDAY platform HeLp DeSK, now you have chance to DiReCtLY write your problems to top govt. functionaries. If you have any grievances, queries, questions or suggestions, you can write in this section as it provides easiest access to you to approach Customs and Revenue authorities. wHo can write in this section? Importers & Exporters, Customs Agents, Chambers of Commerce, Trade Associations and Customs Officers to wHom you can write? Honourable PM, Minister/Secretary for Finance & Revenue, Minister/Secretary for Ports and Shipping, FBR Chairman, Member Customs and Chairperson Senate/National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance & Revenue. Send your letters at: newsdesk@customstoday.com.pk
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dditional Collector Muhammad Ashfaq has said that continuity of smuggling through motorway is a serious challenge for Islamabad Customs and SOP between Motorway Police (MP) and Customs Department should be revised. During an exclusive interview with Customs Today Additional Collector said Motorway Police (MP) had signed a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) few months back which was not properly followed due to many reasons, including refusal of vehicles carrying smuggled items or having non Customs duty paid status by the motorway police. “We don’t have any other way but to stop the suspicious vehicles before entering into jurisdiction of MP which we did but sometimes if some vehicle escaped and entered into the motorway territory we cannot stop it,” he said, adding that SOP between MP and MCC Islamabad must be revised as soon as possible so smuggling via motorway could be stopped with mutual efforts. Answering to a query the additional collector said that Federal Board of Revenue has assigned 23% additional revenue collection target under head of all duty taxes against current Tinancial year, whereas MCC Islamabad will succeed to chased revenue target of 2nd quarter.
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fter extensive coverage of the issue by Customs Today, the Sindh Chief Secretary through diary no 29342 had asked the Sindh Revenue Board to probe the issue and take action against Maersk Pakistan within 15 days. But the SRB did not comply with orders of the Chief Secretary which shows alleged connivance of some of the officials with these power shipping companies. Question arises that when these companies are registered with the SRB for last several years then why they are not taking action against them for evading taxes worth billions of rupees? How it is possible to avoid huge taxes worth billions without the help of SRB insiders? Why SRB high-ups are not conducting proper audit and taking action against these companies? It is pertinent to mention here that an appeal was submitted to the Supreme Court of Pakistan to intervene and investigate connivance of Maersk, Pacific Delta Shipping and Sindh Revenue Board in the alleged mega scandal. Sources say that NAB has also started inquiry into this matter and if SRB does not act then NAB is ready to act and take action against Maersk, Pacific Delta, SRB for connivance and causing billions of rupees losses to the exchequer.
Ashfaq said that after directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the MCC is conducting auction of 102 vehicles. He added that 53 vehicles were auctioned during Tirst auction held at PM House while rest of 49 vehicles were surrendered to Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for their sale through public auctions. He said that out of 49 vehicles, the MCC has sold 23 luxury vehicles on
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very reasonable price during October to December FY18-19, while rest of 26 vehicles are still parked at Islamabad dry port and will be auctioned during upcoming month. He said that the Collectorate and ASO with assistance of local police have made a colossal crackdown against Indian and non-perishable smuggled goods those came under jurisdiction of Islamabad via different
routes linking Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK). He said that if this smuggling activity will continue, it can make a huge loss for national exchequers as well as under advise of the Seed and Plant Protection Department, some of perishable Indian smuggled goods are health hazardous so whenever “we seize perishable consignment, we destroy them before reaching into the market”.
ICCI for saving compliant taxpayers from more taxes Asad Umar,
Federal Minister for Finance & Revenue, Islamabad Dear Sir,
I want to bring in your notice that present government should ensure that the compliant taxpayers are not burdened with new taxes in the forthcoming new mini-budget as putting more tax burden on the regular taxpayers for enhancing tax revenue would prove counterproductive and discourage tax culture in the country. Present government is making preparations to announce its second supplementary budget within less than Tive months after presenting Tirst supplementary budget in September 2018 to
increase revenue collection and reduce Tiscal deTicit, but it should avoid imposing new taxes on the existing taxpayers and should instead focus on broadening the tax net that was the wise approach to improve tax revenue collection. Despite tall claims for broadening the tax net, successive governments in Pakistan have not been able to increase the tax base due to which the country is facing the problem of low tax revenue. With population of over 200 million people, FBR reportedly received only 482,275 income tax returns till October 2018, which reTlected that many potential taxpayers remained out of tax net. This situation is putting extra burden on the existing taxpayers and making their life miserable. According to a working paper of IMF, Pakistan had a tax revenue gap equivalent to 10 percent of its GDP
The current government has taken a wise step by separating tax policy from tax collection, however, it should take bold measures to broaden the tax base with protection to the rights of existing taxpayers. Pakistan would continue to rely on outside donors for Tiscal stability until strong measures are not taken to build an adequate tax base. The government should formulate a new tax policy focusing on broadening the tax base and safeguarding the genuine interests of compliant taxpayers that would help in enhancing the tax revenue and coping with Tiscal deTicit issue more effectively. or roughly $28 billion in 2016 while the country has the potential to double its tax-revenue-to-GDP-ratio by increasing its tax base.
Yours sincerely,
Ahmed Hasan Mughal, President ICCI, Islamabad
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peshawar i&i recovers cloth from five toyota Corolla cars
PESHAWAR: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigations (I&I) recovered cloth worth millions of rupees from five Toyota Corolla motor cars on Hayatabad road. Sources told Customs Today that Director Customs I&I Dr. Arslan Subucatageen received credible information about smuggling of non-duty paid cloth from Peshawar to Punjab. He immediately directed anti-smuggling squads to enhance checking on all exit and entry points of the city.
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aciTic International Lines (PIL) and its agents in Pakistan, PaciTic Delta Shipping (Pvt) Ltd, are harassing and disturbing genuine importers through illegal holding & blocking of their imported goods for the sake of demanding additional demurrage and detention charges in violation of relevant customs laws. Importers have Tiled application to lodge FIR against this shipping line and its agents in Pakistan under PPC 407, 409, 420, 427, 506 and others so that these fraudsters are stopped to blackmail genuine importers by demanding ‘illegal’ additional charges. PaciTic International Lines is a shipping company incorporated in Singapore in 1967. The founder of PIL is the Chinese entrepreneur Chang Yun Chung. While Bakhtiar Khan is owner of Delta Group of Companies and Chief Executive OfTicer at Delta Transport (Pvt) Ltd engaged with businesses like transportation, trucking and railroad. Sources said PaciTic Delta Shipping (Pvt) Ltd is also a company of Delta Group and working as agents of PIL in Pakistan. Sources further said that main beneTiciary of the PaciTic Delta Shipping is Adil Khan and he is also key planner of mega scam of demurrage and detention through which his company is looting and bleeding the genuine importers of Pakistan and robbing billions of rupees from them
annually. Importers said PIL Ltd and its agents M/s PaciTic Delta Shipping are deliberately holding the containers for minting illegal money and causing huge losses to the national exchequer by slowing down of revenue generation. Importers told Customs Today, “they are suffering heavily daily due to non-availability of their goods, along with reputation loss & loss of customers, etc. and also the goods quality is deteriorating daily which leads to total loss very soon if the goods are not disposed in the markets”. Sources said law under SRO 1220(I)/ 2015 explains that shipping companies cannot charge any demurrage and detention where speciTically it is not agreed and also speciTically not mentioned on the B/L (Bill of lading).
Sources further revealed that another section 14A of the Customs Act, 1969 says the importer cannot be forced to pay any demurrage or detention charges if Customs gives a certiTicate to importer called the ‘delay and detention certiTicate’. But despite this certiTicate, importers’ goods are held illegally to demand heavy amounts as demurrage. The application said, “Importers, through their shipper/agents in China, handed the goods to PIL Ltd. as trust to be delivered and released here at Karachi. The shipping lines PIL Ltd nominated M/S PaciTic Delta Shipping (Pvt) Ltd as their agents at Karachi for delivery of goods. Importers also long back paid in full to the shipping lines the ocean freight charges as agreed between the parties. But despite
repeated reminders and visiting ofTice of M/S PaciTic Delta Shipping (Pvt) Ltd, they did not release the goods yet”. Importers in the application said, “The actions of PIL Ltd. through its owners, management and staff including but not limited to S.S.Teo, Peter Chang, Tan Chor Kee, William Tay, Teo Tend Seng, Tony Teo, Choo Wee Teo, Kuan Kim Kin, others and of M/S PaciTic Delta Shipping (Pvt) Ltd through its owners, management and staff including but not limited to Bakhtiar Khan, Naveed Ahmad Khan, Tay Kian Phuan William, Teo Chew Seng, Teo Siong Seng, Qamar Naqi, Baig Mirza Mueez, Khan Imran and others, individually and jointly, tantamount to conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating, mischief to cause losses, threatening,
etc. which attract penal sections under PPC 34, 407, 409, 420, 427, 506, besides others.” Importers said they give goods as trust (amaanat) to the PIL Ltd. but their goods are held illegally to blackmail them to pay heavy amounts of charges and thus the PIL Ltd & its agents M/s PaciTic Delta make good wealth through criminal means. Sources conTirmed that the importers have Tinally lodged application against PIL Ltd and its agents in Pakistan M/s PaciTic Delta Shipping and they are following up with the Jackson police station on daily basis. The police ofTicials assured the applicants that soon they will lodge the FIR according to law and take necessary legal action against all the accused persons involved in the mega scandal.
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eputy Collector Islamabad Dry Port (IDP) Saleha Zakir Shah said that collection of revenue is our second priority but vigilance is our topmost priority. Talking with Customs Today during an exclusive interview, she said that she believed on teamwork and having trust in people. She added that during the Tirst half of Financial Year 2018-19, the Islamabad Dry Port (IDP) staff worked hard and made all clearances according to law. Miss Shah said, “I am very thankful I got this hardworking team at IDP which helped me a lot
to surpass the assigned revenue collection target for the Tirst two quarters of FY18-19.” She said that due to increase in duties and taxes, imports have decreased as compared to the last Tinancial year whereas due to discouraging imports, local items buying has been enhanced. She said that imports affected due to dollar fluctuations and tariff structure. It is good to discourage imported luxury items to promote local products and for the promotion of exports, the government is also following the policy to discourage imports. She said that State Warehouse has a number of short-range walkie-talkie sets which were de-
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IDP team’s efforts helped surpass revenue target: DC Saleha Zakir
DC Saleha Zakir Shah tained in different operations and the IDP for departmental use, one of these sets may be given to adding that this could enhanced
coordination among Customs dry port staff. She added that metal detector may be purchased for use of IDP whereas intercom at Customs offices at IDP may also be set up. Deputy Collector said that our main revenue spinner is M/s Attock Refinery. Through this single importer a huge quantity of revenue under head of Customs Duty (CD) added into the account of IDP during first half of July to December FY18-19. She said the Prime Minister (PM) House auctioned vehicles through the support of IDP. She said that unless we shift from indirect taxes to direct taxes, tax culture cannot be developed and it is our duty to pay taxes to promote the national economy.
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exporters ask govt to release refunds on priority basis
MULTAN: The business community has urged upon the government to save the textile relating industry of monetary crunch by making payments of their refund claims as billions of rupees of exporters in DDT and DLTL have been stuck up with the government causing great sufferings to the already burdened exporters who are now at a loss to understand how to make both ends meet and such an alarming situation will ruin the export business of the value Added Textile Exporters.
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irectorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation generated Rs14.07 million through auction of conTiscated goods and vehicles. According to details, there were almost 12 various impounded vehicles and miscellaneous goods which were offered in the auction conducted at Customs Intelligence and Investigation ofTice where a large number of bidders participated in the auction. The most prominent attraction for bidders in the auction was their interest in bidding different vehicles. Vehicles included Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Nissan, Toyota Vitz and others. Almost 10 impounded vehicles were sold out successfully in Rs13.24 million during the auction and remaining two vehicles were not auctioned due to fewer prices. Customs Intelligence and Investigation also offered different lots of miscellaneous goods in the
auction including cloth, tyres, auto parts, chemicals, cosmetic products and other items.
Miscellaneous lots were auctioned in R8,30,000. Deputy Director Customs
Intelligence and Investigation Khial Muhammad Khan supervised the whole auction process
Multan Customs foils attempt to smuggle cigarettes to jeddah
of conTiscated vehicles and goods along with Inspector Malik Muhammad Nasir.
Customs Court accepts challan in HSD smuggling case KARACHI
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ustoms and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team deputed at the Multan International Airport foiled an attempt to smuggle cigarettes to Jeddah. According to details, customs team intercepted a passenger at Multan International Airport during examination of luggage. The customs team was conducting their routine checking of passenger luggage
through scanning at the time of departure where they found huge quantity of branded cigarettes packed in different pattern. Customs teams re-examined the goods in ordered to clear their doubts about the luggage. During thorough examination of passenger Customs team found that passenger has concealed almost 25 cartons (dandas) which was placed in the dresses. Customs teams recovered cigarettes from the luggage of passenger Bashir Ahmad who is
resident of Dera Ghazi Khan and he was trying to smuggle cigarettes from Multan to Jeddah through Tlight no PA- 870. Customs teams and Federal Investigation Agency asked the passenger about recovered c igarettes and he informed that he was taking cigarettes for his friends residing in Saudi Arabia. According to law passengers are allowed to take 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 1/2 kilogram of tobacco along with them.
he Customs Court accepted interim charge sheet against suspect namely Hashim Khan s/o Hakeem Khan, resident of Tehsil Adanzai, district Lower Dir, who was arrested in a case of attempting to smuggle non-duty paid high speed diesel. Investigation officer of customs department submitted interim charge sheet and informed that a spot information was received to the effect that a Hino tanker bearing registration No QAE-9617, was moving on Mai Gari near Northern Bypass containing Iranian smuggled diesel in a water tanker. He submitted that pursuant to the said information, the ASO MCC Preventive staff posted at Super Highway Choke Point intercepted said water tanker and recovered 6000 litters high speed diesel. During the search, the suspect was asked to produce lawful documents, however, he failed to produce any lawful documents; therefore, goods were taken into customs’custody and suspect was also arrested.
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Additional Collector Asma declares seizure of nDp truck legal
FAISALABAD: Customs Adjudication Additional Collector Asma Hameed issued an Order in Original (ONO) in favor of the Anti-Smuggling Organization Sara-i-Muhajir. As per details, ASO team received information through Assistant Collector Shah Samad Hamadani regarding the movement of smuggled vehicle. The team intercepted used Hino truck bearing registration no: C-2165 Dir model 1997 near Sara-i-Muhajir Chowk district Bhakkar and asked the owner of the vehicle who identified as Nawab Khan to show documents regarding legal import of the Hino truck.
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hief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar has lauded the police performance, especially Punjab Police DIG Legal Abdur Rab’s role in retrieving huge lands, including residential houses and agriculture lands, from the grabbers. DIG Legal Abdur Rab submitted a report to the Supreme Court at its Lahore Registry detailing police performance regarding the properties it retrieved from grabbers and restored to owners. The report was submitted to a two-judge apex court bench, which was headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar. Punjab Police DIG Legal Abdur Rab said that 422 human rights cases were received, 49 applications were found false, compliance was made in 311 cases, partial compliance was made in 62 cases and 54 Tirst information reports were registered. 18 houses worth Rs81 million and 1321.5 kanal agricultural land worth Rs510 million were restored to owners. The police recovered Rs27.5 million in cash and returned to 18 applicants. The police also restored plots measuring 78 kanal worth Rs3,500 million to owners. Thus, total worth of all properties restored is approximately Rs4,200 million or 85.30 percent of total cases received. It is pertinent to mention here that Supreme Court’s Human Right Cell Director General Rana Amir Saleem and AIG Saif Ul Murtaza played vital role in retriev-
ing lands and handling the cases pertaining to human rights violation. HRC Director General Rana Amir Saleem and AIG Saif Ul Murtaza took prompt action on applications against land grabbers and issued directions to Punjab Police. Police, under legal supervision of DIG Abdur Rab, used all resources in the operations against land maTia and got quick assistance from the relevant departments, especially Rana Amir Saleem’s HRC, to track down land grabbers, collect evidence against them and arrest
the real culprits. DIG Abdur Rab arranged open meetings with the victims to get Tirst-hand information and complaints against land grabbers. During operations, DIG Abdur Rab directed all police ofTicers their prime responsibility is to protect the lives and properties of citizens and all-out efforts should be made in this regard. During operations, the police took prompt action and complied with directions in letter and spirit. It is pertinent to mention here that Chief Justice Mian Saqib
Nisar in different cases ordered the police and city administrations to clear the encroachments from major cities. He also issued orders to retrieve land from land grabbers and land maTia and return it back to owners in different cases. In a case, the top judge asked Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar, heads of cantonment, Karachi Development Authority (KDA), Sindh Inspector General (IG), Rangers director general to clear encroachments from Karachi Saddar. In other cases, he ordered to retrieve lands
occupied by Mansha Bomb and Khokhar brothers in Lahore. The orders against the Khokhar brothers were issued after the court took notice of a complaint made against them by overseas Pakistanis who had accused them of illegally occupying their land. On Oct 2, 2018, the Lahore administration had launched a grand operation against encroachments, retrieving illegally possessed land, including around 80 kanals possessed by Mansha Bomb in Johar Town worth Rs5 billion.
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ollectorate of Customs has made revenue collection of Rs3672.872 million throughout the month of December 2018. According to the details, the Collectorate has collected customs duty of Rs1828.50 million by surpassing the assigned revenue target of Rs1235 million in the month of December of fiscal year 2018-19. Multan Customs posted 48% growth by collecting Rs593.5 million excess revenue under the head of customs duty during December 2018 while the Collectorate has collected customs duty of Rs744.616
million in the corresponding period of the fiscal year 2017-18. The Collectorate collected Rs1766.321 million sales taxes against the set task of Rs3374 million during the period of December. The Collectorate has achieved almost 52% revenue collection in wake of sales tax during said period. On the other hand, the Collectorate was able to collect Rs2042.790 million under the head of sales tax during the corresponding period of December 2017-18. Sources told Customs Today that sale in High Speed Diesel (HSD) observed decline in the month of December 2018-19 due to which less clearance of
ex-bonding HSD happened in the said period. It is pertinent to mention that High Speed Diesel is one of the significant import components of the Collectorate which has almost 98% share in the entire import items. Customs Collectorate has also collected almost Rs1.598 million under the head of additional sales taxes during December. The Collectorate has made collection of Rs61.63 million against assigned task of Rs 14 million in wake of income tax for the duration of December 2018. Multan Customs collected Rs15.266 million under the head of Federal Excise Duty throughout December of ongoing financial year 201819.
Meanwhile, Collectorate of Customs collected Rs1127.987 million under the head of petroleum development levy throughout the month of December 2018. Sources told Customs Today that Multan Customs collected petroleum development levy from oil marketing companies on the clearance of ex-bonding high speed diesel (HSD) shipments from Multan Dry Port. Petroleum development levy is levied by federal government on the oil marketing companies for clearance of high speed diesel. The Collectorate received almost 97 percent of its revenue collection through the clearance of High Speed Diesel and other petroleum products from the
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PARCO oil refinery located in the area of Mehmood Kot. The Collectorate collected all taxes from oil marketing companies including customs duty, sales taxes, federal excise duty, income taxes, additional sales taxes, petroleum development levy from oil marketing companies at the time of ex-bonding clearance from Multan Dry Port. Multan Customs collected petroleum development levy of Rs1127.987 million from clearance of high speed diesel. On the other hand, the Collectorate had collected petroleum development levy amounting to Rs1374.025 million from the clearance of high speed diesel in the same month of prethe vious Tiscal year 2017-18.