Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday (September 21) restored the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) jurisdiction of levying and recovering land conversion fees, news sources reported.
The LHC reversed the single judge bench judgement, allowing the LDA to levy taxes. The single-judge bench ruling stated that the LDA may neither collect nor recover conversion fees on roads or parts of roads deemed commercial under List-A, or otherwise converted for commercial use. The petitions were filed in response to the LDA’s decision to impose a one-time conversion fee under the LDA Act and the 2014 regulations for using land for commercial activity, which was deemed unlawful because people had been conducting business on their premises for a long period while paying all commercial rates.
Justice Shahid Waheed issued the ruling on an intra court appeal (ICA) filed by the LDA after its legal counsel, Amir Saeed Rawn, promised that no action would be taken to recover the commercialization charge until the appeal was decided.
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