During a raid on Walton Tobacco Company, government authorities have seized 10 cartons of illegal cigarettes, 10 bags of tobacco to prepare 100 million cigarettes and 19 cigarette paper rolls and other related material.
Mirpur: AJK govt. paces up crackdown against cigarette industry involved in tax evasion. Joint teams of AJK’s excise and taxation department and police had continued a crackdown operation against tax evasion in the cigarette industry of AJK. According to details, on the instructions of Prime Minister of AJK crack down operation had been contained with full pace against the tax evading cigarette manufacturing factories in the areas of AJK. In this regard raids were conducted on gowdowns and different offices of National Tobacco Company, Walton Tobacco Company and Chinar Tobacco Company in Mirpur, Bhimber and Barnala.
During a raid on Walton Tobacco Company, government authorities have seized 10 cartons of illegal cigarettes, 10 bags of tobacco to prepare 100 million cigarettes and 19 cigarette paper rolls and other related material.
In another operation, government authorities raided godowns of National Tobacco Company, Bhimber and seized 3,811 cartons of illegal cigarettes and more than 384,000 kgs of raw tobacco.
In another operation, authorities had raided a house which was taken on rent by National Tobacco Company. During raid,the authorities seized 85 cartons filter rods, 67 cartons cigarette paper, 17 cartons illegal cigarette, 16 cartons cigarette tape, 10,000 kgs of raw tobacco and other raw material.
In a separate raid at Chanar Tobacco Company, Barnala، the authorities confiscated 731 bags of tobacco.
It is pertinent to mention that the AJK authorities had increased its crackdown operation against cigarette manufacturing factories involved in tax evasion in the premises of AJK.
At the moment, AJK tax authorities are losing billions of rupees annually only due to tax evasion in the cigarette sector of AJK. These illegal cigarettes which are manufactured in AJK are smuggled to the various areas of Punjab.It is interesting to mention that despite passing of last final date, track and trace system had not been implemented in the cigarette factories located in the areas of AJK.
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Azad Jammu and Kashmir abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947. Azad Kashmir also shares borders with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the south and west, respectively. On its eastern side, Azad Kashmir is separated from the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (part of Indian-administered Kashmir) by the Line of Control (LoC), which serves as the de facto border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir. Geographically, it covers a total area of 13,297 km2 (5,134 sq mi) and has a total population of 4,045,366 as per the 2017 national census.
AJK govt. paces up crackdown against cigarette industry involved in tax evasion
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