Chawla eyes greater tax collection

Stresses need to launch publicity campaigns to encourage taxpayers

KARACHI:

Sindh Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department Mukesh Kumar Chawla stressed the need for comprehensive tax collection, especially property tax and professional tax, during the current financial year 2021-22.This he said while presiding over a meeting here at his office which was attended by Secretary Excise & Taxation and Narcotics Control Department Raja Khurram Shehzad Umar as well as director generals Munir Ahmed Zardari, Haji Saleem Bhutto, Director Admin Shabana Pervez and other officers.

In case of significant reduction in coronavirus cases, road checking campaigns will also be launched to recover taxes from tax defaulter vehicles, the minister said. He lauded the performance of officers and staff in achieving more than 100 per cent tax targets during the last financial year and hoped they would further improve their performance during the current financial year.

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He said there was also a need to launch a publicity campaign to encourage tax payers to deposit their taxes in time so that they could avail the facility of online filing. Chawla said that preventing the young generation from using drugs and discouraging drug dealers was also the prime responsibility of the Excise & Taxation and Narcotics Control Department.

Chawla said to achieve this goal, check posts on the borders of Sindh should be made more active and officers with a good reputation should be posted there.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 15^th, 2021.