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Functions
The
Excise and Taxation Department has been mandated the
twin functions of “TAX COLLECTION AND NARCOTICS
SUPPRESSION”. This department initially created in 1908,
has been in the arena of tax collection and narcotics
control in the province in various silhouettes/
structure but started functioning as an independent
entity since 1971 after having disintegrated of one
unit. This Department has incessantly been achieving the
target of tax collection but has always exceeded them.
This Department’s contribution to provincial exchequer
on taxation side comes to around 64% of total tax
revenue receipts of the provincial Government and plays
paramount important role in resource mobilization,
trajectory of development and reforms programmes
initiated by the Government from time to time.
The prime goal of Department is to
rationalize/simplify the system of collection of
provincial taxes/levies/cess to provide all possible
facilities to the taxpayers and to boost up the
Government exchequer & to clamp down drug traffic/abuse,
which is a pervasive and multifaceted curse and affects
every aspect of not only the Pakistani society but the
International community as well, which needs a
well-coordinated, concerted and synergetic efforts on
part of not only all the Government Agencies/Departments
but also International Agencies/Donors including civil
organizations/NGO. Being an uphill task as the Sindh
Province is the country’s gateway to outside world.
Considering its porous locations, drug traffickers tends
to push their consignment of illegal trade through
various entries/exists spots through it. It has four
vulnerable borders, including one long coastal border on
its South West side, which wide open to drug smuggling
into, or out of, the Province
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