Vehicle tax: Excise teams impound defaulters’ cars

RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Excise and Taxation Department has impounded 80 vehicles and motorcycles in an operation against token tax defaulters and unregistered vehicles in the city. Most of the impounded vehicle owners had defaulted on payment of life-time token tax while others did not have proper registration documents. The special operation was launched on the directives of the Punjab Excise and Taxation Secretary Khalid Masood Chaudhary and Excise Director Jam Siraj Ahmed. According to an excise and taxation spokesperson, five teams conducted a crackdown against defaulters in Morgah, Civil Lines, Gawalmandi, Sawan Camp, Rawalpindi city and cantonment areas. Over 500 vehicles and motorcycles were checked during the operation and several were fined. The vehicles running on the city’s roads with cancelled registration numbers are also being impounded.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 1^st, 2014.