SIALKOT: Excise and Taxation department has announced to seal 120 luxury bungalows due to prolonged non-payment of their luxury taxes here. The officials added that the E&T Department had issued the recovery notices to the owners of these luxury bungalows for the payments of their luxury taxes, but they were still reluctant to pay luxury taxes by using their complete political influence, in this regard.
According to the local E&T officials, these luxury bungalows were located in various parts of the local cantonments in Sialkot and Gujranwala here.
The officials said that Punjab government has given an official target of recovery of Rs620 million luxury taxes in this region, out of which all the 16 recovery teams have yet recovered Rs130 million as the recovery campaign was still on here in this region as well, the officials added.