{"id":47753,"date":"2019-01-21T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=47753"},"modified":"2019-01-21T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:09:58","slug":"pra-issues-notices-to-tax-evading-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pra-issues-notices-to-tax-evading-hotels.html","title":{"rendered":"PRA issues notices to tax-evading hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gujrat: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has issued tax notices to hotels and guest houses across the city, a news source reported.\u00a0 A number of unregistered hotels have also been added to the authority\u2019s registration database.<\/p>\n

PRA took the action after the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) gathered data pointing towards potential instances of tax evasion by these commercial developments.<\/p>\n

Related:\u00a0PRA all set to tax marriage halls<\/a><\/p>\n

ACE gathered data listing the number of hotels and their guests in the November 2018 period. When this information was compared with corresponding data in the PRA registry, huge differences were found.<\/p>\n

The notices were issued to hotels that did not pay taxes in-line with their number of guests.<\/p>\n

According to ACE Gujrat Deputy Director Sajjad Gondal, PRA didn\u2019t have access to the data of around 2,472 guests, who stayed in various hotels of Gujrat during November. PRA had been relying on the data retrieved from hotel managements, which helped the latter in evading taxes.<\/p>\n

Previously, the revenue authorities had collected at least PKR 2 billion annually. However, in recent years, PRA\u2019s collection has fallen below that number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gujrat: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has issued tax notices to hotels and guest houses across the city, a news source reported.\u00a0 A number of unregistered hotels have also been added to the authority\u2019s registration database. PRA took the action after the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) gathered data pointing towards potential instances of tax evasion by these commercial developments. Related:\u00a0PRA all set to tax marriage halls ACE gathered data listing the number of hotels and their guests in the November 2018 period. When this information was compared with corresponding data in the PRA registry, huge differences were found. The notices were issued to hotels that did not pay taxes in-line with their number of guests. According to ACE Gujrat Deputy Director Sajjad Gondal, PRA didn\u2019t have access to the data of around 2,472 guests, who stayed in various hotels of Gujrat during November. PRA had been relying on the data retrieved from hotel managements, which helped the latter in evading taxes. Previously, the revenue authorities had collected at least PKR 2 billion annually. However, in recent years, PRA\u2019s collection has fallen below that number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":46872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10026],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-pra-issues-notices-to-tax-evading-hotels"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPRA issues notices to tax-evading hotels - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gujrat: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has issued tax notices to hotels and guest houses across the city, a news source reported.\u00a0 A number of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pra-issues-notices-to-tax-evading-hotels.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PRA issues notices to tax-evading hotels - 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