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Call to withdraw surcharge advice to sugar
mills
KARACHI (April 03 2004): Pakistan Sugar Mills
Association, Sindh Zone (PSMA-SZ) has requested
the Sindh Cane Commissioner to withdraw the advice
to the sugar mills to deposit the surcharge at the
rate of 0.15 paisa per 40 kilograms with effect
from 1991-92 to date with the government treasury.
The Cane Commissioner has written a letter to the
Provincial Secretary, Agriculture, endorsing a
copy to the sugar mills, stating that during the
audit of receipts of Sugarcane Development Cess (SDC)
for the 2002-03 crushing season, the audit party
observed that the withdrawal of surcharge on cess
by the Sindh cabinet was quite illegal till the
decision of the cabinet meeting was approved by
the provincial legislature or an ordinance was
issued by the Sindh Governor.
The audit party, therefore, observed that the
decision of Sindh cabinet meeting, held on July 8,
2002, did not have any legal effect and had lost
its legal validity.
It also requested that necessary demand notice
might be issued to the concerned management of
sugar mills and surcharge on cess might be
recovered under intimation to the audit.
The PSMA-SZ, in its letter, pointed to the Cane
Commissioner (CC) that the advice was arbitrary as
it had ignored the following facts:
-- Sindh government cabinet meeting decision of
July 8, 2002.
-- Several meetings were held and committees
constituted to resolve the issue of sugar industry
and time to time advises from the office of the
Cane Commissioner, Sindh, to sugar mills for
refund of surcharge to the sugarcane growers.
-- Reiteration of it in the Sugar Control Board (SCB)
meeting held on January 7.
-- Several sugar mills, having already made
disbursement of surcharge to sugarcane suppliers
and others already doing it.
The PSMA-SZ further observed that the office of
the Cane Commissioner is required to support and
facilitate the sugar industry, a major
constituent, rather than to compound the problems.
Courtesy Business Recorder |
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