Unpaid Taxes: E&T Dept to issue lists of defaulters
The MQM Lahore office has to pay Rs134,000 in property tax and the PTI Office Rs91,372.
According to the channel, former Punjab Assembly speaker Rana Mohammad Iqbal owes Rs108,000 in property tax. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
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.
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.