PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has launched GIS-based Centralized Urban Immovable Property Tax Management and Information System, thereby transforming the whole property tax regime into an automated, transparent and robust mechanism.
A ceremony in this regard was held at Chief Minister’s House on Friday with caretaker Chief Minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah as chief guest. The newly-launched Management and Information System (MIS) has been completed at a total cost of Rs95.898 million. Initially, the project has been launched for the two districts of Nowshera and Abbottabad and would soon be replicated in rest of the districts soon.
Under the project, 50,938 new property units have been identified in Abbottabad and Nowshera and thus the total number of property units in the two districts has increased to 90,938. Resultantly, the demand of tax revenue in both the districts has also increased from Rs69 million to Rs123 million in Nowshera and from Rs83 million to Rs143 million in Abbottabad.
Addressing the ceremony, the chief minister lauded the Excise and Taxation Department for launching the project and said the new system will not only improve tax collection and management mechanism but will also facilitate taxpayers by providing an integrated online system and grievance redress mechanism.
The addition of new property units in the valuation list will also result in revenue growth for the province, he remarked and added that the complicated mechanism of tax payment has always been a serious problem for citizens, due to which they were hesitant to paying taxes; but now through the newly established UIP Tax Management and Information System, they can pay taxes from their home by using online tax paying facility.
He hoped that the excise department will continue to adopt technologically advanced techniques in the future as well, so as to further advance its tax collection and public facilitation system.
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