Auctioned vehicles by AKF seized by custom intelligence on the charge of non payment of customs.
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Haji Inam said while talking to local journalists that after two week verification by Custom Intelligence and Investigation Federal Board of Revenue it was cleared that the vehicle was imported by AKDN and auctioned as local purchase wrongly and was non custom paid. Due to this mistake of the management of AKF Haji Inam said that he faced great difficulties and suffered mentally torture. In this connection when this scribe contacted Aga Khan Foundation at Islamabad Syed Iltaf Hussain Manager Administration told that we already apologize for this mistake and actually the vehicle was sold by an inadvertent error as the auctioning staff considered it local purchased one. He said that AKF is a non profit organization working for poverty reduction and AKRSP is exempted from taxes and custom duty on purchase of vehicles needed for this work. However for disposing of its off road vehicles AKRSP follow the standard procedures and rules of CBR. Accordingly AKRSP obtain No Objection Certificate from Central Board of Revenue (CBR) after proper assessment of taxes on the used vehicles to be sold through auction to general public. The taxes levied by CBR on the auctioned vehicles is collected by AKRSP from the bidders and deposited to Government treasury but this vehicles was included both imported and locally purchased and was placed mistakenly in the list of locally purchased vehicles and was sold as such and was omitted from the tax assessment process. He said that we already confessed our fault and are ready for payment of any type of fine as levied by the authority as the case is under trial and would be decided in near future.
G.H. Farooqi
Email: gulhamad@gmail.com , gulhamadfarooqui@yahoo.com
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