Rs91,439 mn tax collected in 11 months, says Sindh taxation minister

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department Mukesh Kumar Chawla, while giving details of tax collection in the current financial year, has said that Rs91,439.18 million tax has been collected in 11 months, from July 2021 till May 2022.

He further said that Rs30,164.488 million tax was collected in the same period of last financial year.

According to the details, Rs1,880.768 million in property tax, Rs10,879.020 million in motor vehicle tax, Rs102, 692.682 million in infrastructure cess, Rs 130.439 million in cotton fee and Rs 45.448 million in entertainment duty and Rs 788.993 millions in professional tax had been collected.

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Mukesh Kumar Chawla said that the overall situation of tax collection was satisfactory and hoped that 100 per cent of the targets would be achieved by the end of the current financial year.

In September 2021, after arrival of 40 buses for the Green Line BRT project, the Sindh government had also declared to get 50 buses for Karachi under a provincial-funded transport scheme.

The then minister for parliamentary affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla had made the announcement while replying to an inquiry from Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Shaikh during the assembly session.

Haleem Adil Shaikh had stated that the chief minister and transport minister had frequently requested to bring buses for Karachi, however, their assurances had vanished.

“When will the Orange Line project be inaugurated,” he had asked while declaring that the federal government had achieved its promise with the people of Karachi, taking 40 buses to Karachi while 40 more would be transported in few days.

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