Excise Department goes for digital information system
The 103 year-old Excise Department will be modernised to enhance revenue collection by installing digital information system while improving efficiency of employees, curtailing irregularities and tax evasion by large scale liquor manufacturers,
The department has functioned without a computer-based information system and details of the productions in several liquor manufacturing plants cannot be traced due to manual back office record system, a parliamentary sectoral committee report revealed recently.
This has led to the tax evasion of. up to Rs.6.2 billion by nine leading liquor manufacturing companies making it impossible for the department to collect the 2023 revenue target of Rs.207 billion, official data shows.
The Excise Department has collected Rs. 99 billion during the past eight months, less than 47 per cent of the estimated revenue of Rs.217 billion.
The Finance ministry will take necessary action to devise necessary amendments to the Excise Ordinance with provisions to cancel the licences of the manufacturers who evade paying taxes.
Measures will be taken to cancel the liquor license of the liquor shops selling alcohol without the sticker.
The department has been directed collect data and check the quantity of liquor supplied to the liquor factories and the quantity of bottles distributed from the factories preventing any irregularities and malpractices.
It has been observed that several manufacturers including the market leader has not adhered to the directive of pasting stickers on liquor bottles.
The department has already ordered this company to paste stickers on all liquor bottles manufactured by them
The Department of Government Analyst has confirmed that several liquor manufacturing plants have used excessive amounts of sugar in beer production.
The Excise Department has been directed by the parliamentary committee to immediately look into this and conduct raids to take stem action against such manufacturers.
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