The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) raided and sealed several fashion outlets in Gulberg and the Defence Housing Authority in Lahore earlier yesterday for allaged non-compliance.
A PRA team, headed by Additional Commissioner Ayesha Ranjha sealed 13 outlets for non-payment of taxes.
A PRA team, headed by Additional Commissioner Ayesha Ranjha, sealed the Zara Shahjahan, Mini Bindra, Sania Maskatiya, Nida Azwer, Ayesha Imram, Shirin Hassan and Ammar Belal outlets as well as six others, said a spokesman for the PRA.
The spokesman added the the PRA had been in contact with the fashion designers for over a year regarding tax collection on their services.
The sealed outlets owe Rs80 million tax to the authority, he said.
Last month, the PRA in its on-going drive for General Sales Tax (GST) collection on services sealed a number of fitness centres on for non-payment of the tax.
According to a press release, PRA officials sealed Oxygen Gym and Convert Fitness in Z Block DHA, Vigour Gym, Genesis, Azhar Fitness Centre and Synergy Health Fitness in Jauhar Town. The PRA officials also met resistance when they went to seal Convert Fitness and Azhar Fitness Centre, the press release said.
Following imposition of Section 59 by the commissioner PRA, officials conducted complete monitoring of two eateries in the Gulberg area. A team of PRA has been stationed at Faridi Café and MS Barbeque in Gulberg to monitor sales and to compare findings with GST payments. PRA believes that the steps will lead to reduction in tax evasion.
