LAHORE: The Punjab Excise and Taxation (E&T) has announced to hold an auction of attractive registration numbers through online system to provide an equal opportunity to people for getting prestigious number plates.
The universal number plates would be issued for cars soon replacing the old ones, said Punjab E&T Director General Akram Ashraf Gondal while talking to APP. He said a crackdown would be started against those who did not pay token taxes and get registered their vehicles during the current year, adding that vehicles of various government departments would also be inspected in this regard.
Akram Ashraf said it was for the first time that a tax had been imposed on ‘unutilised’ plots, adding that the government had fixed two years of delivery of possession to the owner for the levy of tax. Different categories were being chalked out for collecting of this tax, he maintained. To a question, he said four anti-narcotics police stations in Rawalpindi, Mianwali, Multan and Lahore and nine check posts were being made operational. During a few months, 300 cases had been registered related to drugs, he added.
Talking about Dealers Vehicle Registration System (DVRS), the DG said the DVRS had been introduced in Multan, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi which would be extended to other districts of province till December 2016. For this, licences had also been issued to 10 dealers, he added.
In the next stage for licences, more than 50 applications had been received from various districts and after their complete scrutiny, dealer vehicle registration licences would be issued, he said.
To another query, he said out of 4.5 million properties registered in the department, data of 2.3 million properties had been computerized while 2.2 million properties were yet to be computerized. He said 80 percent data of the E&T department had been computerized while the remaining 20 percent would also be made centralised during the next month for which the government had passed the project.
The E&T department has achieved 24 percent of total target of Rs 29 billion set for year 2016-17 in only two months, he said and added the department would also complete its whole target as it done in the previous fiscal year of Rs 23.3 billion.
The DG said the rebate period on property tax was September 30 in which five percent discount would be given to people and after it, there would be one per cent fine per month on non-filers.
He said property survey was conducted in 2013-14 after 2001 and during this gap, market value increased so if taxes were applied as per laws and market value, it would add more burden on people that’s why the government had decided to increase tax poll in stages.
