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PCB offices, Gaddafi Stadium sealed due to non-payment of taxes worth Rs48m

Cricket board fails to pay property tax despite multiple reminders

Sports Desk April 30, 2015

A file photo of the PCB headquarter in the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. PHOTO: IJAZ MAHMOOD/EXPRESSS

LAHORE: The Excise and Taxation department has sealed the offices of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore due to the non-payment of the property tax worth Rs48 million , Express News reported.

According to the source, the department has time and again sent notices for the payment of the property tax but when all their notices were ignored they sealed the place.

The department also sealed the nearby shops and restaurants.

It should be made clear that the PCB has been taking stay order from the court, but yesterday the Lahore High Court rejected their plea to issue another stay order and the department sent PCB a notice to seal the Gaddafi Stadium.

COMMENTS (2)

J.Niaz | 9 years ago | Reply Were the office bearers inside when the Excise sealed the premises?

Jay Shah | 9 years ago | Reply GOOD. I have been wanting the PCB to to be shut down, their funding stopped. The ugly security walls built on portions of Qaddafi Stadium's periphery demolished and the stadium handed over to "ordinary" Pakistanis to play cricket inside rather than on the roads outside. ALSO. The funding normally provided to the PCB should be diverted to football, women's cricket and handicapped persons cricket instead

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