{"id":16179,"date":"2025-09-15T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=16179"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:53:45","slug":"customs-audit-reveals-major-tax-evasion-and-serious-irregularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=16179","title":{"rendered":"Customs Audit Reveals Major Tax Evasion and Serious Irregularities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1744\"><strong>A recent customs audit has uncovered large-scale irregularities and tax evasion, causing massive losses to the national exchequer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1983\">According to the report, the faceless customs assessment system alone resulted in a staggering Rs. 100 billion loss within just three months. Out of 13,140 goods declarations reviewed, 2,530 were found to contain serious discrepancies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1985\" data-end=\"2273\">The audit further revealed that in 1,524 declarations, tax and duty evasion worth Rs. 5 billion was detected. Additionally, prohibited goods valued at Rs. 10.54 billion were cleared illegally, while penalties exceeding Rs. 30 billion were not imposed, inflicting further revenue damage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2275\" data-end=\"2481\">The report also highlighted shocking cases, including the illegal clearance of 54 solar panel containers through bogus importers and a luxury Land Cruiser worth millions being cleared for just Rs. 17,635.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2483\" data-end=\"2739\">The audit noted that traders manipulated the system by canceling goods declarations and re-filing them to avoid taxes. It warned that the growing use of the Green Channel has severely limited pre-clearance controls, turning the system itself into a risk.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2741\" data-end=\"2859\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent customs audit has uncovered large-scale irregularities and tax evasion, causing massive losses to the national exchequer. According to the report, the faceless customs assessment system alone resulted in a staggering Rs. 100 billion loss within just three months. Out of 13,140 goods declarations reviewed, 2,530 were found to contain serious discrepancies. The audit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[8475,8479,8478,8477,8480,8476],"class_list":["post-16179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-customs-audit","tag-faceless-assessment","tag-green-channel","tag-irregularities","tag-prohibited-goods","tag-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16181,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16179\/revisions\/16181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}