{"id":54883,"date":"2019-09-02T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54883"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:33:33","slug":"govt-mulls-options-to-regulate-powers-of-property-tax-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulls-options-to-regulate-powers-of-property-tax-inspectors.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls options to regulate powers of property tax inspectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government is looking to regulate powers of excise inspectors on accounts of irregularities reported in property-tax assessments, according to a news source. The decision is expected to curb corruption in property tax collection mechanism and also increase taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-reprimands-excise-department-for-unfair-notices-directs-action.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CM reprimands excise department for \u2018unfair\u2019 notices, directs action<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously, the excise inspectors had been given certain authority in terms of TAX assessment. This autonomy gave them room to impose taxes on property as per their desecration. Some of these inspectors also allegedly misquoted facts in terms of properties\u2019 occupation status. Furthermore, they also imposed varying taxes on houses located in the same area and followed no specific criteria to assess due taxes on commercial, residential, and leased property.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/excise-department-to-have-appointment-system-for-citizens.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Excise Department to have appointment system for citizens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources claim that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-to-digitise-land-record-of-urban-areas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">computerisation of property data<\/a> leaves no room for the involvement of excise inspectors in assessment of property taxes. The Excise Department believes that major reforms are required to improve situation in the mechanism of property tax assessments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government is looking to regulate powers of excise inspectors on accounts of irregularities reported in property-tax assessments, according to a news source. The decision is expected to curb corruption in property tax collection mechanism and also increase taxes. Read:\u00a0CM reprimands excise department for \u2018unfair\u2019 notices, directs action Previously, the excise inspectors had been given certain authority in terms of TAX assessment. This autonomy gave them room to impose taxes on property as per their desecration. Some of these inspectors also allegedly misquoted facts in terms of properties\u2019 occupation status. Furthermore, they also imposed varying taxes on houses located in the same area and followed no specific criteria to assess due taxes on commercial, residential, and leased property. Read:\u00a0Excise Department to have appointment system for citizens Sources claim that the computerisation of property data leaves no room for the involvement of excise inspectors in assessment of property taxes. The Excise Department believes that major reforms are required to improve situation in the mechanism of property tax assessments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12827,12828],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-govt-mulls-options-to-regulate-powers-of-property-tax-inspectors","8":"tag-property-tax-assessment-update"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt mulls options to regulate powers of property tax inspectors - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government is looking to regulate powers of excise inspectors on accounts of irregularities reported in property-tax assessments,\" \/>\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\/govt-mulls-options-to-regulate-powers-of-property-tax-inspectors.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt mulls options to regulate powers of property tax inspectors - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government is looking to regulate powers of excise inspectors on accounts of irregularities reported in property-tax assessments,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulls-options-to-regulate-powers-of-property-tax-inspectors.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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