{"id":61786,"date":"2020-02-22T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61786"},"modified":"2020-02-21T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:01:10","slug":"gujranwala-excise-sends-tax-notices-to-owners-of-vacant-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gujranwala-excise-sends-tax-notices-to-owners-of-vacant-plots.html","title":{"rendered":"Gujranwala Excise sends tax notices to owners of vacant plots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gujranwala: After completing survey of vacant plots in the city, the Excise and Taxation Department has dispatched tax notices to the owners of these properties, a news source reported. As per officials, the city currently hosts 22,000 vacant plots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gujranwala-ghanta-ghar-food-street-beautification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Gujranwala\u2019s Ghanta Ghar, Food Street to be beautified (opens in a new tab)\">Gujranwala\u2019s Ghanta Ghar, Food Street to be beautified<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Excise Department previously placed a ban on the transfer and registration of vacant plots on non-payment of property taxes. Between 2017 and 2018, the Punjab government had imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/strategy-devised-to-collect-taxes-from-owners-of-vacant-plots.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"property tax on vacant plots (opens in a new tab)\">property tax on vacant plots<\/a> in order to increase its revenue. The survey conducted back then had revealed that Gujranwala alone hosted 51,000 vacant plots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/survey-of-vacant-plots-complete-transfers-reopened.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Survey of vacant Gujranwala plots complete, transfers reopened (opens in a new tab)\">Survey of vacant Gujranwala plots complete, transfers reopened<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per the details shared by the Excise Dept. owners of 22,226 vacant plots in the city were found to be tax defaulters; owing a collective amount of approximately PKR 9.5 million. Reportedly, the department has served them various notices to pay the due taxes but the owners didn\u2019t comply with the instructions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/survey-launched-to-bring-highway-properties-into-tax-net.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Survey launched to bring highway properties into tax net (opens in a new tab)\">Survey launched to bring highway properties into tax net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further, the department has dispatched commercial tax\nnotices to the owners of plots where commercial activity is being carried out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujranwala: After completing survey of vacant plots in the city, the Excise and Taxation Department has dispatched tax notices to the owners of these properties, a news source reported. As per officials, the city currently hosts 22,000 vacant plots. Read: Gujranwala\u2019s Ghanta Ghar, Food Street to be beautified The Excise Department previously placed a ban on the transfer and registration of vacant plots on non-payment of property taxes. Between 2017 and 2018, the Punjab government had imposed property tax on vacant plots in order to increase its revenue. The survey conducted back then had revealed that Gujranwala alone hosted 51,000 vacant plots. Read: Survey of vacant Gujranwala plots complete, transfers reopened As per the details shared by the Excise Dept. owners of 22,226 vacant plots in the city were found to be tax defaulters; owing a collective amount of approximately PKR 9.5 million. Reportedly, the department has served them various notices to pay the due taxes but the owners didn\u2019t comply with the instructions. Read: Survey launched to bring highway properties into tax net Further, the department has dispatched commercial tax notices to the owners of plots where commercial activity is being carried out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":61791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[20504,20505],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-61786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-legal-taxation","tag-property-tax-on-vacant-plots-in-punjab","tag-punjab-vacant-plot-property-tax","cat-15015-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Excise sends tax notice to vacant plots&#039; owners - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gujranwala: After completing survey of vacant plots in the city, the Excise and Taxation Department has dispatched tax notices to the owners 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\/gujranwala-excise-sends-tax-notices-to-owners-of-vacant-plots.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Excise sends tax notice to vacant plots&#039; 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