SIALKOT: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Regional Tax Directorate Gujranwala has imposed ban on the sale and purchase of as many as 25 commercial and residential plots in Gujranwala region.
According to FBR officials, these plots were owned by those influential people who concealed the facts about their sources of income, besides, not paying their income taxes. They had purchased these 25 plots in different housing societies, without mentioning them in their assets detail provided to FBR.
FBR officials added that FBR has further tightened its circle around those people, who did not mention their sources of income in their data submitted before the FBR, besides, selling and purchasing residential and commercial plots at various housing societies without paying their taxes in Gujranwala region’s all the sis Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahaud Din, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts.
FBR has informed the managements of the concerned housing societies that the said plots would not be sold or purchased till the payment of their complete dues by their persisting owners.
Meanwhile, under the supervision of Inland Revenue Gujranwala Chief Commissioner Mansur Ahmed Bajwa, Commissioner Irfan Raza and Additional Commissioner Waqas Aslam, a special recovery team of FBR Gujranwala, is also taking stern legal action under FBR’s Act 140 against the owners of above-mentioned commercial and residential plots.
The said FBR team consisting senior inspectors is getting details and data of all the commercial and residential plots from the managements of all housing societies in Gujranwala Division to bring to book several more tax defaulters in region, FBR officials narrated.