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July
20, 2000
Pabna,
July 19 (UNB) – Customs authorities in Rajshahi claimed to have
collected Tk 232 crore revenue in last fiscal year surpassing its
target of Tk 227 crore.
This
income is Tk 36 crore higher than Tk 196 crore of the previous
(1998-99) fiscal year. Revenue target in 1998-99 was Tk 194 crore.
Official
sources said, the total income of last fiscal (1999-2000) in the form
of customs and exercise duties and vats was Tk 146 crore. The main
sources of revenue income were identified as imports of stones, coal,
rice, pulse and fruit from India through the land ports of Hilly, Sona
Mosque and Burimari.
A
high official of Rajshahi Customs Excise and Vat Commissionerate told
UNB that decreasing revenue-evasion trends and efforts of officials
pushed up the revenue earning. “This trend would continue in the
days to come,” he hoped.
Meanwhile,
Pabna Customs Excise and Vat office also claimed to have surpassed its
target of Tk 48 crore in last fiscal year.
It
earned Tk 51.5 crore last year which was 21 percent more than the
revenue collection of 1998-99 fiscal, an official said.
Of
last years’ total income in the district Tk 7 crore was earned from
Squire Toiletries Tk 5.50 crore as excise duty and Tk 1.5 crore came
from cement sector, said the official.
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