KARACHI: Collector of Model Customs Collectorate Appraisement West Dr Farid Iqbal Qureshi on Saturday held separate meetings with officials of the Appraising Intelligence Branch (AIB) and the Post Release Verification (PRV) Department at his office.
Sources told Customs Today that it was the first time that the Collector Appraisement West held meetings of the AIB and the PRV on the same day, adding that the agenda of the meetings was to recover legitimate duty/taxes through detecting tax evasion and short recovery cases.
During the meeting, the collector was pass on clear cut orders of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to generate revenue for achieving the set revenue targets.
The collector was of the view that cases should be registered against tax evaders and fine should also be imposed on them so that they could refrain from doing that again.
The officers of the AIB and the PRV also assured the collector that they would utilize all their resources in order to treat the tax evasion cases in the best interest of the country.
It is pertinent to mention here that FBR already directed to all the customs collectorates of the country to expedite their efforts to enhance revenue collection.