FBR Board meeting focuses on customs reorganization
KARACHI: The second meeting of the Board was held on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, at the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) headquarters in Islamabad. The meeting, presided over by Chairman…
An analysis: New restructuring of Pakistan’s Customs
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued SRO 1637(I)/2024, introducing significant changes to the structure and jurisdictions of Customs departments in Pakistan. According to this new notification, the Appraisement…
Six Preventive officers transferred back to Customs Enforcement South
KARACHI: Six Preventive officers of (BS-16) including Hasan Sardar, Zaheer Ahmed, Muhammad Saleem, Zubair Ahmed Bhatti, Muhammad Asim Nawaz and Muhammad Zubair have been transferred back from Customs Intelligence and…
FBR proposes to withdraw DTRE facility for ghee exporters of KPK, Baluchistan
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has proposed to withdraw Duty and Tax Remission for Exporters (DTRE) facility, earlier allowed to the manufacturers-cum-exporters of ghee located in the provinces…
FBR should devise a comprehensive policy to manage transfers and postings
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) should devise a policy regarding transfers and postings of officials and officers across the board to promote circulation of work and discourage corruption.…
Directorate of PCA re-organized; audit hall setup
KARACHI: Directorate of Post Clearance Audit (PCA) has redistributed the work amongst Inland Revenue Audit Officers, Principal Appraisers, Superintendents, Appraising Officers and Inspectors of the Directorate of Post Clearance Audit…
Sales tax exemptions on LNG, plant & machinery, computer parts’ import
KARACHI: The Finance Bill 2018 proposes to waive the value addition tax of 3.0 percent chargeable on import of LNG under Rule-58B of Sales Tax Special Procedure Rules, 2007. It…
Customs Intelligence Enforcement starts investigating beneficiaries of export incentive regime
KARACHI: Directorate of Customs Intelligence Enforcement Karachi has initiated investigations into the misuse of export incentive regime and affairs at Directorate of IOCO as well as account books of export-oriented…
DG Customs Valuation running extreme shortage of staff
KARACHI: The Directorate General of Customs Valuation and other ‘bad posting’ directorates are extremely short of staff, resultantly the existing staff is heavily over-burdened with work-load, which might compromise the…