Madurai: The Madurai airport has been operating flights to a sole international destination — Colombo — for the last 14 months until it got connected to Dubai on Friday.
Yet, revenue earned by Central Board of Excise and Customs through levy of customs duty on valuables carried by inbound passengers has increased exponentially.
According to informed sources, the Customs officials had collected a duty of Rs. 26 lakh from the day of introduction of the first international flight from here to Colombo on September 20 last year to March 30 this year. But the revenue nearly tripled in the last seven months with the officials having collected Rs. 74 lakh from April 1 to November 21 this year.
28/11/13 Mohamed Imranullah S/The Hindu
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Yet, revenue earned by Central Board of Excise and Customs through levy of customs duty on valuables carried by inbound passengers has increased exponentially.
According to informed sources, the Customs officials had collected a duty of Rs. 26 lakh from the day of introduction of the first international flight from here to Colombo on September 20 last year to March 30 this year. But the revenue nearly tripled in the last seven months with the officials having collected Rs. 74 lakh from April 1 to November 21 this year.
28/11/13 Mohamed Imranullah S/The Hindu
