ACS For Monitoring Mechanism To Ensure Transparency In Revenue Collection
Additional Chief Secretary Local Government Sindh Syed Najam Ahmad Shah, on Wednesday, directed all out efforts for the collection of property tax and devising a monitoring mechanism to ensure transparency in the revenue collection process
KARACHI, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 3rd May, 2023 ) :Additional Chief Secretary Local Government Sindh Syed Najam Ahmad Shah, on Wednesday, directed all out efforts for the collection of property tax and devising a monitoring mechanism to ensure transparency in the revenue collection process.
The ACS while chairing a meeting instructed administrators of District Municipal Corporations (DMCs) to utilise all available resources and delegated powers to collect the property tax.
He said that after the formal approval of the Cabinet, the property tax collection function has been transferred to the Sindh Local Government Department under which tax was being collected from all the commercial and residential properties across the province.
Najam Ahmad Shah said that automated challans should be issued regularly to all those whose property details were updated in the computerized system and tax challans should be issued to correct addresses through the Postal and Courier Services.
Revenue collected through property tax would be spent on public welfare projects and development of the institutions, the ACS said and instructed that the mechanism of property tax collection must be kept free from favouritism and immediate redressal of complaints should be ensured.
He emphasised on attaching top priority to the task of property tax collection and said that Names and property details of the big defaulters should be published in the leading newspapers.
