KARACHI: The Customs Adjudication-I showed an excellent performance in the month of February and first 13 days of current month. The adjudication has issued seven show cause and five final notices to defaulter companies in the month of February and three final notices in the current month.
Sources told Customs Today on Tuesday that the Customs Adjudication-I has retrieved Rs4.66million from M/s Reliable Electronics Thatta. The company was allegedly involved in the tax evasion.
Sources told reporter that Collector Customs Adjudication-I has served a show-cause notice on said company for allegedly causing the treasury a loss of Rs4.66million by way of mis-declaration of classification.
M/s Reliable Electronics Thatta imported a consignment of various types of imported charging fans which were got cleared by mis-declaring the classification under the Pakistan Custom Tariff (PCT) from the Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT) through Examiner Rana Shakeel on December 17, 12017.
The company allegedly availed undue and inadmissible benefit as well as exemption of sales tax.
It is pertinent to mention here that M/s Reliable Electronics Thatta itself has imported identical/same goods under the correct PCT heading 2408.2147. Apart from it, all other importers of charging fans have either been declared by the importers or assessed by the collectorates.