LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday paid over Rs1.4m in ‘luxury tax’ for his Lahore’s Zaman Park residence.
The development came after the PTI chairman received a tax notice from Punjab’s Excise and Taxation Department earlier in the day which he had to pay by May 22. The former premier paid Rs1,440,000 in tax for his Zaman Park house where he has been improving since he was injured in an assassination attempt in Wazirabad on November 3 2022.
The PTI chairman’s old house in Zaman Park had been demolished, while a new one was constructed which is owned by him and his sisters, according to the Excise and Taxation Department Lahore.
The department said that a record of the house was sought from Imran Khan last month which he submitted. After estimation, according to the provincial tax collecting authority, a luxury tax challan worth Rs1,440,000 was sent to the deposed premier, who was removed from office via a vote of no-confidence in April 2022.
In April, the department issued a notice to the cricketer-turned-politician’s mother, the late Shaukat Khanum, for assessment of luxury house tax. The notice directed Imran Khan to clear arrears under the head of luxury tax amounting to Rs3.6m. According to sources, the Excise and Taxation Department dispatched a two-member team comprising ETO Adeel Amjad and Inspector Amna Rashid to Zaman Park to deliver the notice.
According to a notification, the notice was served in the name of Imran Khan’s late mother’s Zaman Park residence. Khan’s late mother, a housewife, passed away around 38 years ago in 1985 due to cancer. The property continues to be in her name.
The PTI chairman owes Rs3.6 million in taxes, as per the department. It was also said if no compliance with the notice is made, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would be approached.
