Karachi:Provincial Minister of Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control and Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla has said that the Excise Department of Sindh has collected a total tax of Rs12172.986million in July/ August during this financial year.
Presiding over a meeting in his office, Addressing the meeting, he expressed his satisfaction over the overall tax collection situation and said that a road checking campaign for collecting taxes from defaulting vehicles would be started soon.
The meeting was told that Rs1216.749million were collected in head of motor vehicle tax, Rs9064.656 million in infrastructure cess and Rs.126.778 million in Professional Tax.
An amount of Rs9.514 million was collected as Cotton fees, Rs800.683million as property tax and Rs27.004mn in Entertainment Duty (including taxes from wine shops).