KP's Real Estate Agents Cry Foul Over New Taxes.

Peshawar -- All Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Property Dealers Association and Peshawar Property Association on Monday criticised the government over imposition of taxes, which has made lives difficult for the citizens.

Addressing separate news conferences at Peshawar Press Club, the office-bearers of Peshawar Property Association and All KP Property Dealers Association demanded the government to withdraw the decision on taxes.

Peshawar Property Association president Sirajul Haq Yousafzai along with other office-bearers warned the government that they would stage a sit-in outside the Parliament House in Islamabad if their demands were not accepted.

Terming imposition of five percent tax on property as unjust, Sirajul Haq rejected this anti-people act and said the FBR policy regarding the annual rent from plot was not applicable.

Commenting on the widely circulated statement of Federal Minister for Finance Miftah Ismail on social media that he was bringing the real estate and car dealers under tax net, he said it was a matter of shame for him that he did not know that they were already paying tax.

Sirajul Haq Yousafzai said that all real estate agents in Pakistan were registered in the FBR and regularly paying annual tax already.

He also ridiculed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's statement that he would sell his clothes for the solution to people's problems.

'If this situation continues, people may tear off the clothes of Prime Minister and his cabinet members,' he added.

Later, the association members staged a demonstration outside Peshawar Press Club to press the government for the acceptance of their demands.

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