New sales tax return form creating problems

Taxpayers and taxmen are facing problems in sales tax returns process due to the introduction of special excise duty (SED) column in the sales tax return form. Sources in the federal excise department told Business Recorder here on Saturday the CBR had included one percent special excise duty with almost every sales tax return submission.
Which helped in achieving the target of excise duty collection and also maximising errors in submitting returns by taxpayers as well. Answering a query, they said the introduction of consolidated submission form, intended to transform taxes collection unit in line with international standards besides facilitating taxpayers by minimising tax-paying documents.
However, commencement of consolidated form is beneficial to both ends, lack of insufficient knowledge and irresponsibility is creating hurdles in recently introduced process. They said that taxpayers were erroneously manipulating special excise duty and sales tax figures in wrong columns, which hindering in tax collection process.
All tax collection process has been done via bank, hence, it is taking long time to remove errors and scrutinising whole procedure again besides facing more difficulties to calculate the real tax collection amount, the sources added.
When asked, who would pay special excise duty, they replied that special excise duty was only chargeable on one time basis either at import stage in case of imported goods or at production or manufacturing stage in case of locally-produced goods with the provision for adjustment of special excise duty, which already paid at import or local stage, hence, special excise duty is not chargeable on the wholesale, distribution or retail stage.
It may be mentioned that CBR had issued SRO by which edible oils and fats, petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, crude oil, motor spirit, aviation spirit, high-speed diesel oil, furnace-oil, natural gas and LPG, electrical energy, phosphoric acid, pharmaceutical products, fertilisers, currency notes, bank notes, shares, stocks, bonds, silver, gold (row form), monetary gold, tin plate, computer hardware, including laptops, notebooks, PCs mainframe and other peripheral units and parts, soyabean seeds, petroleum bitumen, etc were considered as special excise duty chargeable goods.