The Sindh government on Wednesday announced that it will be conducting a property survey of Karachi in an attempt to increase tax collection in the city and bring more people into the tax net.
Currently, the Sindh Excise and Taxation Department is collecting property tax from Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Shaheed Benazirabad and Larkana and the total collection under this head in FY21 stands at Rs1.679 billion, including Rs1.52bn from Karachi alone.
In FY21, Hyderabad contributed Rs77.334m, Sukkur Rs37.501m, Shaheed Benazirabad Rs10.241m, Larkana Rs23.470m and Mirpurkhas Rs11.197m.
The last property tax survey across Sindh was conducted in 2001. Under president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf’s local government law, property tax collection was devolved to the district government, but the exercise was still performed by the provincial taxation department.
