ISLAMABAD: Property dealers and real estate consultants from all over the country have unanimously demanded the government immediately suspend the unjustified, excessive and unilateral property tax imposed this year, saying they would otherwise resort to countrywide protests, said Real Estate Consultants Association (RECA), DHA Islamabad General Secretary Ahsan Malik in a press statement issued here on Monday. He said property dealers and real estate consultants from all over Pakistan had rejected the tax and would converge on Islamabad on October 27 to take part in a grand protest rally against the unjustified property tax. He said that they would take out a peaceful protest rally from T-Chownk Rawat to the National Press Club where they would also hold a press conference and announce further plans of action. Ahsan Malik said that they wanted to pay tax but the property tax imposed from July 1 was highly unjustified, excessive and unilateral and even the system was not transparent. He said that there was no uniformity of taxation in the new system, leading to discrimination and discretionary powers in the hands of few individuals. “The property dealers fear that the measures adopted by the government would lead to corruption and nepotism in addition to depriving the legitimate income to the thousands of dealers involved in the business,” he said. The association’s General Secretary said that all investment in property business had been totally finished due this unjustified property tax, and now this investment was now going to other countries especially UAE. He said that this would also hurt the economic situation in Pakistan, and thousands of people would become jobless. Ahsan Malik said that the government should consult the property dealers and real estate consultants before imposing any such taxes. He said that they were businessmen and were against protests, but the government had left them with no other option.