Excise dept recovers Rs 4.4b tax in August

The Excise and Taxation Department has recovered a sum of Rs 4.41 billion in the month of August 2012.
This was stated by Director General of Excise and Taxation Department Sindh, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, here on Tuesday. He said the amount was Rs 250 million more as compared to the corresponding month last year. Shoaib Siddiqui further pointed out that the overall target for the fiscal year 2012-13 was Rs 29.81 billion. He was optimistic that his Department would easily be able to achieve this target.
Shoaib pointed out that in the last fiscal year the target was Rs 23.7 billion but the collection was 28.2 billion. He said that it is the special directive of the provincial Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla that the tax collection drive be speeded. Shoaib Siddiqui said that motor vehicle tax recovery drive would commence in the province from October 15.
Sindh won’t be divided: Khoro: Sindh Speaker Assembly Nisar Khoro on Tuesday said that Sindh will neither be divided nor be broken with the new local bodies’ bill. Talking to media persons here, the speaker said that opposition members were also absent when the new local bodies’ ordinance was being presented in the Sindh Assembly. While expressing unhappiness over the attitude of the opposition members, Khoro said why did not they announce boycott of the elections under the ordinance? He also expressed sorrow over Nawabshah incident.