Excise dept launches call centre to alert defaulters

LAHORE: Excise Department has inaugurated a Special Call Centre at the Farid Kot Excise Office on Saturday in compliance with the instructions of Secretary Excise and Taxation Mukhtar Masood.

Deputy Director Chaudhry Wahid carried out the inauguration of the call centre. The call centre, consisting of four telephone lines, will operate in two shifts of four hours each. The spokesperson of the Excise Department said that the purpose of this centre is to remind every negligent vehicle owner to pay their taxes, as requested through the pre-warning sticker placed on their vehicles, urging them to promptly fulfill their token tax obligations.

He further apprised that Punjab Excise Department had already launched a campaign against unregistered and tax-defaulting vehicles in Lahore.

On this occasion, Director Excise Region-C M Asif stated that the establishment of this call centre marks another milestone in the steps taken for public awareness.