Excise & Taxation Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa achieved the revenue collection target of Rs 3 billion of the financial year 2018-19. In a statement issued by the Secretary Excise & Taxation, Syed Zafar Ali Shah said that achievement of the target was something unachievable in the last three years track record of the department. He termed the success as team and hard work of all the department employs.
For the achievement of the target, he said the department did not observe weekly offs to ensure 100 percent recovery from the defaulters. He said that the Director General (DG) and his team really deserve appreciation and reward. He claimed that Excise has become the first department that met its target at the provincial and federal level.
Director General, Fayaz Ali Shah while congratulating all teams, maintained that for achieving this hardcore target the director and excise taxation officers really pulled their socks and worked day and night to make it possible. Director General further said that with a less than 1400 staff it is really a big target to achieve and this record recovery is worth appreciation.
Director Revenue Salahuddin in video message announced that in the last month of fiscal year 2018-19 the staff didn't take any offs and worked on Sundays to meet the target which is appreciable and sign of a great leadership.