ST collection monitoring: FBR forms committees

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has extended the scope of the committees to Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and Quetta for monitoring the collection of sales tax from steel sector to improve compliance by the steel units. The FBR issued a Sales Tax General Order (STGO) 15 of 2011 to amend the STGO 4 of 2011 on Friday.
According to the STGO, the Board has constituted committees for monitoring of sales tax collection from steel sector under Chapter XI of the Sales Tax Special Procedure Rules, 2007. The Chief Commissioners of the respective Regional Tax Offices (RTOs) or an officer not below the rank of Commissioner nominated by him shall be Chairman of the Monitoring Committee to oversee the collection of sales tax from steel sector within their respective jurisdictions.
The Chairman of the monitoring committee shall hold regular meetings on his own or on the request of the members of the committee, so that due tax is collected in an effective and efficient manner from this sector, the FBR said. Within the jurisdiction of Karachi/Hyderabad/Sukkur and Quetta, the members of the committee include Abbas Akberali, Amreli Steel, D/89, Shershah Road, S.I.T.E. area Karachi.
In Lahore/Faisalabad, the members of the committee include Ahmed Hassan, Batala Steel (Pvt) Ltd, 16-km Shaikhpura Road, Lahore; Muhammad Saeed, Madina Steel Industries, c/o Dawood Steel Casting, Momanpura Road, Daroghawala, Lahore; and Muhammad Ashraf, Punjab Concast (Pvt) Ltd, 13-km, Shaikhpura Road, Lahore.
In Islamabad/Hattar, the members of the committee are Khalid Javed, Ittehad Foundry, Near R-Castle, E-Industrial Estate, Hattar (Dist Haripur); and Javed Iqbal, Karachi Steel (Pvt) Ltd, Plot No 191-192, Sector 1/10, Industrial Area, Islamabad. The member of the committee within the division of Karachi is Imdad Hussain, Frontier Foundry (Pvt) Ltd, Plot No 166, Road B-7, Hayatabad Industrial Estate Peshawar. The committee member from Peshawar included Muhammad Dawood Khan, Hattat Steel Re-rolling Mills, Plot No 8-9, Phase-4, Industrial Estate, Hattar (Dist Haripur).
Within the jurisdiction of Gujranwala/Sialkot/Daska and Narowal, the committee members are Rafique Steel Casting, S.I.E. No 2, Gujranwala; Major (R) Anjum Pervaz, Khawaja Steel Industries, Khawaja Nagar, Dewan Road, Eminabad, Gujranwala; and Liaqat Ali, Islamabad Steel Furnace, S.I.E No 2, Gujranwala.