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Customs offices collect
revenue from seizure of smuggled items Bhadrapur,
Mar 1 (RSS): It may be noted
that a joint patrol comprising customs officials and police was formed some time back to
control smuggling in the border areas. Last Friday the
mobile patrol team seized some smuggled goods including cloth, motor parts and stainless
steel utensils on a passenger bus, plate No. Ko. A. Kha. 649, on Kakarbhitta-Birtamod road
but later the smuggler group attacked the patrol and decamped with the goods. Likewise in
Chautara, Tatopani Customs Point of Sindhupalchok district collected a revenue amounting
over Rs 640.5 million in six months. Of that amount, Rs 2.95 million was collected as
customs duties, Rs 91.24 as income tax, Rs 216.96 as VAT, Rs 27.95 from local development
tax and Rs 9.44 as SAF Games Tax. The customs office has a target of
collecting revenue worth Rs 1 billion this fiscal year. |
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