Staff Reporter Karachi
Director General Excise & Taxation (E&T) and Narcotics Control Sindh Muneer Ahmed Zardari has said that E&T Dept was in the process of further upgrading its online tax payment system which might not be ideal today but was much better than what it had been in the past and would improve further in the days to come when the taxpayers will be able to smoothly generate all their challans and submit taxes through the department’s online portal.
Speaking at a meeting during his visit to the Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI).
He said that the excise and taxation department pays special attention to the issues being faced by Karachi Chamber as it was this Chamber whose members have been contributing a major chunk of revenue to the excise & taxation department.
Senior Vice President KCCI M. Saqib Goodluck, Vice President KCCI Shamsul Islam Khan, Chairman of KCCI’s Provincial & Local Taxes Subcommittee Tanveer Barry, Former Vice President Asif Sheikh Javed, KCCI Managing Committee Members and representatives of various commercial markets were also present at the meeting.
DG E&T assured that the department was trying its best to facilitate taxpayers by focusing on expediting numerous procedures while efforts were being made to clear the huge backlog of vehicles’ registration number plates which have not been issued.
Senior Vice President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry Saqib Goodluck, while welcoming DG Excise & Taxation, stated that E&T Dept was the main revenue collecting agency of the Government of Sindh which collects Property Tax, Professional Tax, Infrastructure Cess, Motor Registration Fee and Tax, Hotel Tax, Excise Duty, Cotton Fee, and Entertainment Duty but the taxpayers have been constantly facing issues in submitting these taxes due to cumbersome procedures and excessive documentations which have to be simplified.
