KARACHI: A meeting of Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control Department of Sindh was held under the chairmanship of Provincial Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla. Secretary Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control Department Atif Rehman, Director Generals Iqbal Ahmad Leghari, Aurangzeb Akbar Panhwar and other officers also attended the meeting.

Details of tax collection from July 2021 to January 2022 were presented in the meeting. Briefing the meeting, Director General Excise and Taxation Sindh Aurangzeb Akbar Panhwar said that a total of Rs76636.738 million tax was collected from July 2021 to January 2022 as compared to Rs54408.776 million collected during the same period in last fiscal year.

He further said that Rs6860.898 million in motor vehicle tax, Rs64144.398 million in infrastructure cess and Rs530.768 million was collected in professional tax, while Rs127.134 million in cotton fee, Rs1543.899 million in property tax and Rs23.681 million was collected in entertainment duty.

Addressing the meeting, Provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control Department and Parliamentary Affairs and Food Mukesh Kumar Chawla has said that the overall situation of collection of taxes is satisfactory but attention needs to be paid on collection of property tax. He further said that road checking campaign of Sindh Excise Department had been successful. Tax defaulting persons should deposit their taxes immediately and they might visit the Excise Department’s website www.excise.gos.pk for tax details.