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FAISALABAD, Oct 1: The local Collectorate of Sales Tax has smashed a gang involved in preparing bogus invoices for the evasion of tax worth millions of rupees, it is learnt.
According to details gathered by this correspondent, the local collectorate received information that a gang had been preparing bogus invoices, showing paid sales tax, and selling these to exporters for the last couple of years, earning millions of rupees in different cities.
A special team constituted to probe the case unearthed that three firms — ARK Textiles, MHK Textiles and Messrs Abdul Rasheed — were involved in the business.
The team arrested four people — Muhammad Latif Gill, Shafaqat Hameed, Muhammad Arif Kamboh and Asif — and booked them under sections 7, 22, 23, 26, 34, 37, read with section 2(3) of the Sales Tax Act, 1990.
Sources in the local ST collectorate disclosed that the investigation team had succeeded in detecting tax evasion of over Rs15 million. “The evasion may be more than Rs1 billion,” they said.
KILLED: An old man was shot dead by his neighbour over a minor issue in Chak 451-GB of the Tandlianwala Police Station on Monday.
Imam Baksh and Muhammad Arshad had reportedly developed an altercation over the construction of a joint wall of their houses. Arshad, along with his three accomplices, shot dead Imam Baksh following an exchange of hot words.
Area police have registered a case against the accused on the report of Imam’s widow Razia.
LOOTED: Two dacoits looted cash and other valuables from the house of a local lawyer in Ghulam Muhammadabad on Sunday night.
The dacoits stormed into Shahid Saleem’s house and snatched Rs10,000 in cash, five tolas of gold and other valuables from the female members at gunpoint. They fled after locking the inmates in a room.
CHILD LABOUR LAWS: The All Pakistan Labour Front (APLF) has urged President Pervez Musharraf to direct authorities concerned to provide financial help to parents prior to framing child labour laws.
Talking to newsmen here on Sunday, APLF president Rana Ijaz Hussain said the poor people had already been facing the brunt of heavy utility bills and were not in a position to send their children to schools. Therefore, they were constrained to send their children to workshops and factories for earning their livelihood, he said.
He proposed that the government should evolve a concrete policy for implementing labour laws in letter and spirit so that problems of the poor people could be resolved.
He urged the government to arrange free-of-cost evening classes for the poor children.
