| Railways helps Excise Dept curb tax evasion by messanger on 19 January, 2013 - 12:00 PM | ||
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 messanger | Railways helps Excise Dept curb tax evasion on 19 January, 2013 - 12:00 PM | |
Ludhiana: With the railway authorities extending a helping hand to the Excise and Taxation Department, it has managed to check evasion of VAT and other taxes by the "peti mafia" that was thriving in the city. The mobile wing of the department claims to have controlled such cases by 95 per cent.Excise officials confiscate goods from the railway station in Ludhiana. A file photoThe Northern Railway had extended cooperation around four months ago after which the department was successful in curbing massive evasion of VAT and other taxes.Manufactured goods worth crores were allegedly sent out of the city without proper invoices and payment of taxes."We have been able to curtail the peti mafia as the railway authorities have plugged all unauthorised entries points to the railway parcel office and now vehicles carrying parcels are allowed to enter only through the main gate of the goods office. Since now the access to the parcel office is only through one entry point, we carry out inspection of documents and packages before the consignments enter the railway premises," said Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Inderjit Singh.Earlier, officials of the department had to run around several unguarded entry points to the railway complex near Society Cinema, the bylanes near Deepak Cinema Road and the railway goods shed on the Old Court Road where operators of the peti mafia had easy access to the parcel office. | ||