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TAX EVASION * Pakistan - 90% commercial vehicles plying without permits
Traffic police collect Rs 15 million a year for issuing special tokens instead of route permits, claims transporter
Karachi,Pakistan -The Daily Times, by Irfan Aligi -12 Dec 2008: -- The Sindh Treasury is sustaining colossal losses due to tax evasion from dumper and commercial vehicles plying on city roads in the province... Certain groups of transporters are in violation of provincial motor vehicle laws, as these vehicles, which include heavy cargo trucks and dumpers, are operating without proper documentation and route permits... According to sources in the Sindh Transport Ministry, there are around 67,000 vehicles that ply the roads without proper registration plates. The defunct Sindh Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) Chairman Yar Muhammad Jat told Daily Times that around 90 percent of all commercial vehicles in Sindh are operating without route permits, thereby, inflicting pecuniary losses of up to Rs 1.2 million per year in terms of taxes to the Sindh government... (Photo: Pakistan's Trucks)Labels: tax evasion
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