ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has converted all customs collectorates into model collectorates under the World Bank funded project of reforms of the tax administration.
The new model collectorates will be functional from October 1, 2007 across the country, which would be clearing imported and exported goods on online basis —through automated filing of goods declaration form and online assessment of duty and taxes.
Under the proposed plan, the whole customs administration has been divided into two regions — South and North — to be supervised by the chief collector.
According to the customs notification SRO 967 of 2007, the chief collector South will be heading model customs collectorate of PACCS, Karachi; model customs collectorate of Appraisement, Karachi; model customs collectorate of Exports, Karachi; model customs collectorate of Port Muhammad Bin Qasim, Karachi; and model customs collectorate of Preventive, Karachi; model customs collectorate of post clearance audit, Karachi; and model customs collectorate at Hyderabad, Quetta and Gwadar.
The chief collector North will be heading model customs collectorates at Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Multan, Sambrial and Faisalabad.
The areas in the model customs collectorate of PACCS will be: All containerised cargo clearance, routed through PACCS in the civil division of Karachi relating to import, temporary imports of all sorts including imports under Notification No. SRO 1065(I)/ 2005, and under the DTRE scheme and export of cargo, baggage, and transit, transhipment.
Model customs collectorate of Appraisement: All matters including imports, temporary imports of all sorts including imports under Notification No. SRO 1065(I)/2005, and under the DTRE scheme, transhipment, transit and warehousing, Port of Karachi and Off-Dock containers terminals, licensing of clearing agents in Karachi, licensing of bonded carriers, public and private warehouses but excluding the work assigned to collectorates of PACCS, Preventive, Exports and Port Muhammad Bin Qasim.
Model customs collectorate of Exports, Karachi: All matters relating to the civil division of Karachi, Port of Karachi, Port Muhammad Bin Qasim and Quaid-e-Azam International Airport but excluding the work assigned to the PACCS collectorate namely: E.G.M. section, Export Rebate section; manufacturing warehouses (open bonds scheme); manufacturing bond group; industrial survey section; export processing sections, West Wharf and East Wharf; export processing group, M.I. Yard; EPZE Landhi, export processing group at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport Karachi; and all other matters relating to export work.
Model customs collectorate of Port Mohammad Bin Qasim: All matters relating to imports, temporary imports of all sorts including imports under Notification No SRO 1065(I)/2005 and under the DTRE scheme, transhipment, transit and warehousing but excluding the work assigned to the collectorates of PACCS, and anti-smuggling or preventive jurisdiction in areas along the coast from Port Qasim to Thatta up to the eastern tip of Pakistan-India border.
Model customs collectorate of Preventive: All matters relating to the following in the civil division of Karachi, the Port of Karachi including Fish Harbour, Postal appraisement at GPO, Karachi, Ibrahim Hydery, the Pakistan Customs Waters, Quaid-e-Azam Airport, Karachi, Faisal Airbase, Masroor Airbase; Lasbella district and Thatta district, ship clearance, boarding and rummaging, monitoring of gates including anti-smuggling and drug enforcement functions, licensing of ship agents, ship chandeliers and stevedores, sealing and de-sealing of cargo containers, namely: preventive divisions at East and West wharves; unaccompanied baggage sections at East and West wharves and NMB Wharf, passenger traffic at East and West wharves; anti-smuggling organisation; drug enforcement cell; Postal appraisement department, Duty Free Shops, work at Quaid-e-Azam Airport relating to imports, temporary imports of all sorts including imports under Notification SRO 1065(I)/2005 and under the DTRE scheme, warehouses operated or owned by airlines, accompanied or un-accompanied baggage, international passenger traffic and related preventive work, bulk oil imports and diplomatic bonded warehouses.
