According to the channel, former Punjab Assembly speaker Rana Mohammad Iqbal owes Rs108,000 in property tax. PHOTO: FILE
The Excise and Taxation Department directors have been told by the secretary, Zahid Saeed, to prepare and release lists of politicians who are defaulters, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday.
According to the channel, former Punjab Assembly speaker Rana Mohammad Iqbal owes Rs108,000 in property tax and former minister Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor Rs15,000 for a property he owns in PIA Society.
The MQM Lahore office has to pay Rs134,000 in property tax and the PTI Office Rs91,372. The family of Saiful Malook, a former PML-N MPA, owes more than Rs200,000.
Others who are yet to clear their property taxes include former MPAs Haji Imdad, who has to pay Rs50,000; Sheikh Alauddin, who owes Rs33,000; Ijaz Ahmed, who has to pay Rs34,000 and Hafiz Nauman, who has an outstanding property tax equal to Rs10,932.
A E&T spokesman said politicians were being asked to pay their taxes so they could get a clearance certificate.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 4th, 2013.
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