ISLAMABAD
Deputy Amir Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Mian Muhammad Aslam has announced to appear in a public hearing tomorrow, go to courts and take to the streets against the proposal of 200 percent tax increase on property and water in Islamabad.
While giving a press conference in Islamabad, Deputy Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Mian Muhammad Aslam said that there is a proposal to increase property tax and water tax by 200% in Islamabad.
Deputy Amir said that tax on Islamabad can be increased only by the representatives of the local government, and only by the assembly led by the mayor of Islamabad.
How MCI administrator can increase property tax? If tax on property and water is increased, it will be illegal, Mian Aslam said.
An attempt was made once before, we canceled the notice from the High Court, he continued, CDA went in appeal, the matter has been pending in the court for four years, without waiting for the MCI decision in a pending case, to increase the tax. It has been decided that 3 percent CDA was earlier and now it wants to increase it by 2 percent more
Mian Aslam maintained that increasing taxes by 500% in the last four years is not the limit of cruelty. There is no water in the sectors and taxes are being increased. 200% tax is also being imposed on tankers’ water.
Jamaat-e-Islami rejects this proposal of tax, the drama of 27 and 28% public hearing on tax should also be stopped. Jamaat-e-Islami will go to court against these taxes. Five lakh passports are pending. If the cruel system is not withdrawn, they will protest strongly, if the taxes are not withdrawn, the youth will leave the country.
Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Islamabad Nasrullah Randhawa said that 40,000 tax is being levied on a two-and-a-half-marle house in Islamabad.
Mian Mohammad Aslam said that we will speed up the project of bringing water from Ghazi Bharutha on 8th February.
