ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has established 16 Inland Revenue check posts with mobile teams on the routes originating from tax-exempt areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and erstwhile tribal areas to check documents of goods coming from these areas.
The FBR has issued SRO 2061(I) 2022 here on Monday to establish check posts with mobile squads on the routes originating from tax-exempt areas.
The check posts have been established at Karkhano Market Check Post for Khyber District; Sher Garh Check Post Malakand Division Exit; Sodam Rustam Check Post Buner for Malakand Division Exit; BakkaKhel (Bannu-Miran Shah Mobile Squad 4 Road); Katlang Check Post for Malakand Division Exit; Peshawar Motorway Check Post (outside toll plaza) for Malakand Division Exit; Charsadda Motorway Check Mobile Squad 3 Post (outside toll plaza) for Malakand Division Exit; Mardan Motorway Check Post (outside rashakai toll plaza) for Malakand Division Exit; Swabi Motorway Check Post (outside Toll Plaza) for Malakand Division Exit; Shabqadar Check Post for Mohmand Exit; Warsak Road Check Post for Mohmand Exit; Shahkas Check Post for Khyber District; Matani Check Post for Khyber District Exit; Old Marrie (Boya-Paira) for Orakzai Agency Main Exit; Wazirabad on Tank -Waana Road for South Waziristan Exit and Kohat Tunnel Exit for Khyber District Exit.
According to the notification, the conveyance transporting products obtained from tax-exempt zones must be accompanied by any supporting documentation that may be required by sales tax regulations.
To inspect the items carried and the paperwork relating to them, the Regional Tax Office with authority may set up checkpoints along the routes leading from tax-exempt zones. When a vehicle is travelling along a route that is designated as coming from a tax-exempt area, an officer not below the rank of Inspector, Inland Revenue, assigned to such check posts and authorized by the Commissioner, Inland Revenue, may stop the vehicle and examine the documents to make sure they are valid and appropriate for the goods being transported.
In the absence of the prescribed documents or any discrepancy in such documents, the goods so carried shall be seized along with the vehicle carrying the goods by the officer as aforesaid under proper acknowledgment, the FBR said.
