Practice · 01

Customs & taxation.

The founding practice of the chambers: representation and advisory under the Customs Act, 1969 and the revenue statutes, from the Collectorate to the Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan, on the panels of the Federal Board of Revenue and Pakistan Customs since 2003.

Container cranes over a port at dusk
The border, where the practice began

The practice

Every stage,
every forum.

The firm acts at every stage a customs dispute can reach: before the adjudicating officer, before the Collector (Appeals), before the Customs Appellate Tribunal, in references before the Honourable High Courts under Section 196 of the Customs Act, 1969, and in writ jurisdiction where the remedy lies there; and since the same questions of classification and valuation decide both the duty and the offence, therefore the advisory work and the litigation are carried by the same counsel.

More than 200 of the firm's cases have been for the Federal Board of Revenue and the Collectorates of Customs, Sales Tax and Excise at Rawalpindi, Karachi, Hyderabad and Peshawar; the same experience serves the importer and exporter instructing against the department.

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For importers & exporters

  • Disputes

    Classification & valuation

    Tariff classification and customs valuation disputes, post-clearance audit, and duty, refund and exemption matters under the Customs Act, 1969 and its notifications.

  • Seizure

    Seizure & confiscation

    Defence of goods and conveyances seized or confiscated, provisional release, and redemption proceedings before the adjudicating authorities.

  • Appeal

    Appeals & references

    Appeals before the Collector (Appeals) and the Customs Appellate Tribunal; references before the Honourable High Courts under Section 196; writ petitions where the statute leaves no other remedy.

  • Advisory

    Advisory

    Advice on import and export regulation, exemption regimes and the concessionary notifications, given before the consignment moves rather than after it is stopped.

For the revenue

  • 2003 · present

    Panel counsel, FBR & Pakistan Customs

    More than 200 cases for the Federal Board of Revenue and the Collectorates of Customs, Sales Tax and Excise at Rawalpindi, Karachi, Hyderabad and Peshawar.

  • Prosecution

    Smuggling & fiscal fraud

    Prosecution of smuggling and evasion under Section 2(s) read with Section 156(1) of the Customs Act, 1969, in the customs courts and beyond.

  • Apex Court

    Before the Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan

    Assistance to the Attorney General of Pakistan in customs and currency-smuggling matters, including Collectorate of Customs v Khudhai Noor.

  • 2003 · present

    Ministry of Finance

    Consultancy through the FBR on public finance management laws, taxation, revenue recovery and procurement under the PPRA Rules.

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Enquiries in customs, taxation and revenue matters are answered from Islamabad.

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