Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Shabbar Zaidi has said that the FBR's anti-smuggling campaign which will commence Monday (September 2) to disseminate the message 'Let us stop buying smuggled goods'. According to a tweet of Shabbar Zaidi here on Sunday, "smuggling hurts local manufacturing industry, local employment and government revenues. Let all of us commit to boycott purchase of smuggled goods", he added.
The special joint teams of the FBR will launch a major anti-smuggling drive from September 2, 2019 at major shopping centres and large retail outlets in all major cities to verify import documents of foreign goods available in the markets.
The FBR Chairman has said that Pakistan's economy in general and industrial activities in particular are being seriously affected due to availability of smuggled goods, especially consumer goods in the markets.
The government is undertaking various steps to curb these undesirable practices and inter alia some actions to this effect have also been incorporated in the Finance Act, 2019, the FBR Chairman added.
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