Staff Reporter
A meeting on property tax chaired by the Minister for Excise and Taxation & Narcotics Control and Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla was held in his office on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by Secretary Excise and Taxation & Narcotics Control Abdul Haleem Sheikh, Director General Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Director Taxes and other officers. Briefing the meeting, Director General Excise and Taxation & Narcotics Control Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui said that in term of property tax, Rs 1637.556 million from Karachi, Rs 66.707 million from Hyderabad and Rs 31.678 million from Sukkur were recovered. He further informed the meeting that Rs 19.350 million Larkana, Rs 8.653 million from Shaheed Benazir Abad and Rs 9.060 million from Mirpur Khas were recovered. Director General Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui said that so far in the current financial year, Rs. 1771.004 million had been collected in the realm of property tax. During the same period in the previous financial year, Rs.1671.042 million were collected. Addressing the meeting, the minister said that the officers would have to work hard to achieve the goals of property tax, asking them to launch a special campaign to collect property tax. He said that officers who were not showing interest in achieving their tax targets would be taken to task.
