Sindh Road checking campaign against tax defaulting vehicles will be launched from December 23. Mukesh Kumar Chawla.

KARACHI -- The Excise and Taxation Department Sindh has decided to take action against tax defaulting vehicles across the province and a road checking campaign against tax defaulting vehicles is going to be launched from December 23 across the province.

This decision was made at a meeting , chaired by the Minister of Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control and Parliamentary Affairs, Mukesh Kumar Chawla. The meeting was also attended by Secretary Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control Abdul Haleem Sheikh, Director General Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui and other officers. Giving the briefing to the meeting, Director General Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui said that a massive public awareness campaign had been launched through media so that they could deposit their taxes in a timely manner and on the occasion of the road checking campaign, tax defaulting vehicles would be confiscated and the vehicles would be returned only after payment of due taxes and the arrears.

Addressing the meeting, the Minister for Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control and Parliamentary Affairs, Mukesh Kumar Chawla, advised the owners of the vehicles to transfer the vehicles into their names immediately after purchasing the vehicle because driving on open litter is a crime. ?

He added that if the vehicle was used in a crime, then the...