{"id":56379,"date":"2019-10-16T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56379"},"modified":"2019-10-16T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:45:20","slug":"massive-stamp-duty-evasions-housing-schemes-detected-rawalpindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/massive-stamp-duty-evasions-housing-schemes-detected-rawalpindi.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive stamp-duty evasions by housing schemes detected in Rawalpindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: Through recent audits, the revenue department of the Punjab government has reported massive irregularities (stamp duty evasions worth billions of rupees) committed by several housing societies situated in the Rawalpindi district, a news source reported. As per officials, about 40 legal housing schemes had made collective deposits that amount to a meagre PKR 200 million in the provincial treasury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/crackdown-against-societies-defaulting-on-stamp-duty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crackdown against societies defaulting on stamp duty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The provincial government recently declared real estate transactions carried out through written agreements (letters) as illegal, and made it mandatory for the parties involved to pay stamp duty on property transfers.<\/p>\n<p>The amount deposited was much lower than estimates, and officials explained that even if any two of these housing schemes had deposited their stamp duty honestly the amount would have exceeded PKR 200 million. This situation prompted the provincial executive to commence with the audits of these residential societies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/stamp-duties-revised-for-property-transactions-in-ict.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stamp duties revised for property transactions in ICT<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A special team from Lahore consisting of audit experts came to Rawalpindi to assess the situation and found great discrepancies during their initial examination of the records of 40 legal housing schemes. It was found that the dues of only two of the 40 societies surpass PKR 150 million. One owes PKR 130 million, while the other owes PKR 30 million to the provincial exchequer under stamp duty \u2013 with the investigation still underway.<\/p>\n<p>Rawalpindi Revenue Department\u2019s Special Magistrate Iqbal Sanghera said that notices would be issued to societies with outstanding dues; ordering them to clear their charges as soon as the audit is completed. The societies will be dispatched reminder notices thrice and their land would be seized in case of non-compliance. The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has already\u00a0announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rda-adopt-zero-tolerance-policy-against-illegal-housing-schemes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a zero-tolerance policy<\/a> against illegal housing projects in the city. As per the latest stats, over 350 housing schemes in Rawalpindi haven&#8217;t procured a formal approval from the RDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: Through recent audits, the revenue department of the Punjab government has reported massive irregularities (stamp duty evasions worth billions of rupees) committed by several housing societies situated in the Rawalpindi district, a news source reported. As per officials, about 40 legal housing schemes had made collective deposits that amount to a meagre PKR 200 million in the provincial treasury. Read:\u00a0Crackdown against societies defaulting on stamp duty The provincial government recently declared real estate transactions carried out through written agreements (letters) as illegal, and made it mandatory for the parties involved to pay stamp duty on property transfers. The amount deposited was much lower than estimates, and officials explained that even if any two of these housing schemes had deposited their stamp duty honestly the amount would have exceeded PKR 200 million. This situation prompted the provincial executive to commence with the audits of these residential societies. Read:\u00a0Stamp duties revised for property transactions in ICT\u00a0 A special team from Lahore consisting of audit experts came to Rawalpindi to assess the situation and found great discrepancies during their initial examination of the records of 40 legal housing schemes. It was found that the dues of only two of the 40 societies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":7159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13456],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-massive-stamp-duty-evasions-by-housing-schemes-detected-in-rawalpindi"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Massive stamp-duty evasions by housing schemes detected in Rawalpindi - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: Through recent audits, the revenue department of the Punjab government has reported massive irregularities (stamp duty evasions worth billions\" \/>\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\/massive-stamp-duty-evasions-housing-schemes-detected-rawalpindi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Massive stamp-duty evasions by housing schemes detected in Rawalpindi - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: Through recent audits, the revenue department of the Punjab government has reported massive irregularities (stamp duty evasions worth billions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/massive-stamp-duty-evasions-housing-schemes-detected-rawalpindi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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