The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) will launch a country-wide drive against non-duty paid smuggled cars wrongly registered by the provincial excise departments from next month. Official sources told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that the CBR has obtained the data of vehicles registered with the provincial excise departments in Rawalpindi and other cities, which revealed that non-duty paid vehicles are being registered by the excise departments.
The CBR will confiscate all such non-duty paid vehicles on the basis of registration numbers allocated to these cars.
They said that the CBR started collecting data of provincial excise on a tip off that a large number of non-duty paid cars were being registered by the provincial excise departments.
From February, the customs will start this drive in all major cities of the county with the help of Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation, Customs and Excise, Islamabad.
The CBR has time and again rejected the proposal of the Prime Minister Secretariat and NWFP governor to launch new customs amnesty scheme for regularisation of non-duty paid smuggled vehicles in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
Three schemes were launched for regularisation of smuggled vehicles on April 11, 1998, June 12, 1999 and December 16, 1999,which were strongly criticised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) because 'whitener' schemes disrupt a sound tax policy.
The last amnesty scheme expired on March 15, 2000 after which hundreds of non-duty paid/smuggled vehicles have been confiscated. The public has now come to accept the finality of the government's decision. Another amnesty scheme may cause the person, whose vehicles were confiscated, to go into litigation on the grounds of discrimination, the officials added.
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