Lahore: Punjab Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department (ETNCD) Director General Akram Ashraf Gondal has indicated strict action on non-payment of property tax in areas falling in the tax net, reported a news source.
Gondal instructed the members of local government to declare rating areas to bring in more properties into the tax net. ETNCD director general gave the directives during a meeting held with the members of local government. He also ordered the member to start collecting property tax from all property owners.
He also ordered his staff to immediately prepare a report against officers who didn’t declare the rating areas. Reportedly, a survey has already been conducted to declare rating areas for collection of property tax.
Gondal ordered that the names of the officers involved in not declaring their rating areas should be sent to the director general’s office as soon as possible. The practice has caused financial losses worth millions of rupees to the ETNCD.
From the last two years, property tax hasn’t been collected from areas not declared as rating areas by the local government. The survey in this regard was conducted two years ago, but many properties remain to be declared in the rating areas.
