KARACHI: The Customs Officers Club and the Karachi International Container Terminal are the defaulters of the property tax being collected by the Excise and Taxation Department of Sindh government, Customs Today learnt.
Director Excise and Taxation Sindh Shabir Shaikh told Customs Today that the Customs Officers Club located at ST-6/1 Block 10, Gulshan-e-Iqbal had an outstanding dues under the head of property tax that reached Rs 3,534,208.
Moreover, the director disclosed that the Karachi International Container Terminal Berth Nos 6, 7, 8 and 9 were also the defaulter of property tax since past couple of years. The amount outstanding is amounting to Rs 145,471,412.
“The property tax is levied and collected under the Sindh Urban Immovable Property Tax Act, 1958. And a uniform rate of tax is levied on all categories of properties at 25 percent of annual rental value”, Shabir Shaikh added.
“We have constituted a committee for the early recovery of the property tax pending to the Customs Officers Club and the KICT for the past couple of years”, he concluded as saying.
