RECA to protest against property tax today

Author: Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: The government is using delaying tactics in talks with real estate consultants on property tax, and now it announced that a shutdown strike and protest rally in Islamabad would be held today (October 27) as per schedule.

In a press statement issued here on Wednesday, Real Estate Consultants Association (RECA), DHA Islamabad General Secretary Ahsan Malik said that Advisor of Prime Minister, Mr Haroon Akhter, had invited the property dealers for a meeting but failed to provide any commitment regarding revision or suspension of the existing unjustified, excessive and unilateral property tax imposed this year.

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. 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.

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