February 25, 2008	Monday	Safar 17, 1429

KARACHI, Feb 24: Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation Abdul Karim Mahar has announced that new computerised registration books for vehicles will be issued next month.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, he said Rs114 million was collected in the shape of motor vehicle registration tax from July 2007 to January this year. The amount was 12 per cent more than the target set for the period, he added.

The minister said the computerised registration books for the vehicles would be issued from March and this would eliminate the chances of fake or tampered documents.

Under the new procedure, he said, complete particulars of the vehicles would be provided to the Security Printing Corporation. For the time being, computerised registration books would be issued for the newly-registered vehicles and later the manual registration books would also be computerised in phases.

He said the department issued one million registration books/papers of private and commercial vehicles annually. He said 50 per cent tax had been announced for 15-year-old vehicles and 25 per cent for 10 years old.—APP