{"id":72722,"date":"2020-12-16T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T09:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=72722"},"modified":"2020-12-16T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T09:29:16","slug":"punjab-et-to-use-technology-to-identify-owners-evading-property-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-et-to-use-technology-to-identify-owners-evading-property-taxes.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab E&#038;T to use technology to identify owners evading property taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: Punjab Excise and Taxation Department (E&amp;T) \u2013 in collaboration with the British government\u2019s Department for International Development (DFID) \u2013 has outlined an innovative and tech-smart solution to trace tax-evading properties under the Sub-National Governance (SNG2) programme, according to a news story published on today (December 16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-excise-punjab-urban-unit-sign-mou-increase-tax-net.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Excise, Punjab Urban Unit sign MoU to expand tax net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this \u2018Track &amp; Trace\u2019 project, the authorities will use satellite imagery to trace hidden properties and vacant plots.&nbsp; With the help of high-resolution satellite images of different areas, the Management Information System (MIS) data will be updated in order to aid the excise department to unveil the number of the properties and vacant plots that have been registered under the tax net and those that are still hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the pilot testing, owners of over 4,000 vacant plots and buildings located in three housing societies in Lahore were found to be evading property taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/crackdown-planned-against-property-tax-defaulters-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab Excise to launch crackdown against property tax defaulters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The E&amp;T Department also announced that this system will also trace and stop motor vehicles with outstanding token taxes at the city\u2019s entrances and exits \u2013 with the help of advanced scanning machines.\u00a0 To this effect, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/excise-punjab-announces-deadline-property-tax-payments.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> E&amp;T department<\/a> is also working on a data-sharing agreement to be signed by the departments of Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Islamabad to identify pending payments for token taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Excise and Taxation Department (E&amp;T) \u2013 in collaboration with the British government\u2019s Department for International Development (DFID) \u2013 has outlined an innovative and tech-smart solution to trace tax-evading properties under the Sub-National Governance (SNG2) programme, according to a news story published on today (December 16). Read: KP Excise, Punjab Urban Unit sign MoU to expand tax net Under this \u2018Track &amp; Trace\u2019 project, the authorities will use satellite imagery to trace hidden properties and vacant plots.&nbsp; With the help of high-resolution satellite images of different areas, the Management Information System (MIS) data will be updated in order to aid the excise department to unveil the number of the properties and vacant plots that have been registered under the tax net and those that are still hidden. During the pilot testing, owners of over 4,000 vacant plots and buildings located in three housing societies in Lahore were found to be evading property taxes. Read: Punjab Excise to launch crackdown against property tax defaulters The E&amp;T Department also announced that this system will also trace and stop motor vehicles with outstanding token taxes at the city\u2019s entrances and exits \u2013 with the help of advanced scanning machines.\u00a0 To this effect,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":61791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015,15016],"tags":[44174,44175,44176],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"category-new-developments","9":"tag-punjab-et-to-use-technology-to-identify-owners-evading-property-taxes","10":"tag-punjab-excise-and-taxation-department-et","11":"tag-tax-evading-properties","12":"cat-15015-id","13":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab E&amp;T to use tech to identify evading property owners- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Under this \u2018Track &amp; 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