Shehbaz Sharif has been keen on the professional training of officers. Officer trainees were trained in the administration of customs, excise and service taxes through a combination of class room sessions and visits to departmental locations across the length and breadth of the province. In addition, sensitization to the working of other stakeholders was built through short training modules.
The ultimate goal of the Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif has been to protect public and individual health and welfare; therefore, he has been deeply concerned to push the Narcotics Control Department to realize his dreams.
LAHORE Sept 19 (TNS): The Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department have achieved a great deal under the leadership of Shehbaz Sharif. He has been keen on the professional training of officers of the department. Officer trainees were trained in the administration of customs, excise and service taxes through a combination of class room sessions and visits to departmental locations across the length and breadth of the province. In addition, sensitization to the working of other stakeholders was built through short training modules.
These enabled the field officers to develop requisite skills for keeping pace with the current international developments and the changing tax administration scenario in the country.
The department’s second purpose is to fight drug trafficking and the abuse of illegal substances on an all-Punjab level. It worked in close cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, provided resources and training to the personnel of law enforcement agencies in fighting drug trafficking. It monitored Punjab’s frontiers to track down points where smuggling activities take place with foreign traffickers.
The ultimate goal of the Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif has been to protect public and individual health and welfare; therefore, he has been deeply concerned to push the Narcotics Control Department to realize his dreams. To avoid the drugs and narcotics, police stations were established throughout the Punjab province.
The UN treaties—the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 and the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances of 1988 along with the limitation of the use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances exclusively for medical and scientific purposes, the conventions require Governments to take all practicable measures for the prevention of drug abuse and for the early identification, treatment, education, aftercare, rehabilitation and social reintegration of the persons involved (article 38 of the 1961 Convention and article 20 of the 1971 Convention.
The Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif has been in the forefront to fulfill the UN objectives.
The Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department provide services for collection of various taxes and duties efficiently and effectively and suggest ways and means for additional resource mobilization in the Province.
Apart from building up of taxpayer’s confidence, creation of taxpaying culture, providing facilities to the general public in payment of taxes are its top most priorities.
The department aims to mobilize fiscal resources through equitable and taxpayer-friendly taxation and customer facilitation, plug in leakages, expand tax base, and rationalize tax rates and exemptions, BPR, promote automation and outsourcing of functions & services to ensure IEE, economize and optimize delivery of public services through minimum public and government official’s interface, transform HR into professionally sound, motivated team, committed to dispense public friendly services and be a semblance of good governance, maximize fiscal space, improve service delivery and departmental image, HR at the central stage of the reform initiatives, motivate & provide enabling environments to E&T Human Resource, Maximizing fiscal space by better tax management and judicious use of resources.
In the recent past Excise Taxation and Anti-Narcotics department has taken many initiatives which were focused for convenience of its clientage and improving Government Revenue.
One of these initiatives is a project with a name of “Traffic Reforms in Punjab”. An important component of this project is dealer vehicle registration system (DVRS). The main objective of this system is to eliminate phenomena of plying of un-registered vehicles and to provide maximum convenience to the purchaser of motor vehicles.
For this purpose the department has taken well reputed dealers having good standing in the market as their partners. These dealers were given licenses under the Punjab Motor Vehicle transaction Licensees Act 2015. These motor vehicle dealers were given access to MTMIS Centralized System.
The Punjab government launched a scheme of registration of new vehicles through automobile dealers’ Dealer Vehicle Registration system (DVRS). Dealers take the registration fee and a fixed convenience/service charge from the customer, register the vehicle through the registration system, and issue customers the license plates on the spot. This system has been established in Multan, Faisalabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi.
Under the dealer vehicle system on spot registration system was initiated in 36 districts of Punjab. Under DVRS 9 influential dealers were given license. The licensed dealers sold 262 cars by August, 9. There was a crackdown against fake plate number and disapproved and illegal plate numbers and no custom vehicles were managed under the system. The suspects involved in making fake plate numbers or without any proper model were prisoned and imposed a fine of Rs15000 to Rs2 million. And for such faulted and fake vehicles Warehouse was established.
Buying and selling of vehicles on the basis of fake documents were controlled through computerized system under the excise and taxation department. Till March 2012, 778 motor vehicles, 688431 motor cycles, 48602 motor cars and 40989 other vehicles were registered. Under motor transport management information system (MTMIS) scheme around 6 million vehicles were registered.
To avoid car lifting, universal number plate scheme was initiated in June, 2017 and Token tax sticker was initiated in July 2016. The project of computerizing the property tax record was initiated in Sialkot.
Thousands vacancies were filled of various types in the department. To avoid environmental pollution Vehicle Inspection and Certification System (VICS) was initiated on July 23 and under the system such centers were established in 39 districts of Punjab.
For the timely registration of vehicle queue management system was initiated in Rawalpindi, Multan, Sialkot and Gujranwala. An office was established in Lahore as well for the registration of vehicles and Police has direct access to database of all the registered vehicles.
Moreover, PT-1 and PT-8 forms were computerized and under the Tehsil administration 52 more areas joined the taxation circle. All the tax records were received by the department by February 2012 and the third party survey was initiated for the tax collection system. In all the districts of Punjab property tax system was computerized in June 2017.
