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Wednesday, May 2, 2018 07:20 AM 

Government policies is killing Property business. They wanted to get hen slaughtered to get golden egg once only instead of getting egg on daily basis. Some analysis. Pakistan Population is around 200 million. According to Govt record filers are only 1.25 million which is 0.62% of population. As per Govt. this figure should be around 13% to 15%. It means 28.75 million people are non filer. These non filers are doing some business activities and against each business activity they are paying some tax to govt. Because even if non filer was doing property business he was paying hefty tax to government against each of his transaction. But now Govt, is saying that non filer will not be able to buy property over 4 million and also will not be able to buy new cars.

If these people will be barred to do property business then it will be a huge loss of revenue for Govt. If some more people will become filer even than the majority of the people will not become filers rather they will try to do something else and it will definitely will have negative impact on property business too.

Habib replied on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 10:46 AM 

100% agreed you cant change mind set of people, Here where politicians don't declare the assets, how they expect common public to Give their neck to Slaughter. For 70 years we are watching that salaried people were paying Tax and Business men earning Crors were not. Then Being overseas If I declare all my assets today Who Knows Next Govt will Impose wealth tax or withholding tax on these properties. How I will pay even if it is 5% per year, who Knows on second third fourth property Tax Ratio will be different.
In past such things has been done by Govt and there are examples, In 70s Butto nationalization policies were worst example, where Private Own Companies like BECO and many 100 others were nationalized and owners were paid only 10% of Market value. Beco a company which was making tanks in 1960s perished in few years.
My kids keep on asking why Pakistan is not manufacturing Industrial nation, and My reply is always that 20 years we lost by overnight ruthless decision of Butto, nations cant sustain such jerks,
Another example is Moodi whose demonetization policy pushed India Many years back, We should learn lesson from our past and others examples.

Well wisher replied on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 10:56 AM 

That's right...it will take a decade for people to become filer....95% buyers are currently non filer , it means 90-95% buyers are out from market for long time until few of them become filer to buy property...it's a very poor announcement by government and not good at all for real estate....we will not be able to find a filer buyer in the market in future....bad announcement by govt.:(

Nabeel® replied on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:20 AM 

The people who need to build 1 Kanal house particularly, will have to become filer. No other option.

And trust me .....there are many such in pipeline...our population is huge.

Atta replied on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:29 AM 

The whole point of this policy actually is to discourage investment in the real estate. This is the stated position of the government since they know that all ill-gotten money is parked in real estate. However, they should have given overseas Pakistanis an option to remain non-filers as their income is not illegal.

Tahir Chaudhry replied on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 04:55 PM 

Agreed with Habib and Atta's point of exemption to overseas non-resident Pakistanis, but it takes some common sense and prudence by the greedy 'rulers' in Pakistan. Mifta is another 'his master's voice' of goofy NS devoid of basic rules of economics management. A country already drowned in trillion dollars debt is at the mercy of these jokers. There is no vision, no planning at all except 'saving their so called democracy' at the cost of killing the people of Pakistan. Indirect taxes have destroyed the social fabric in Pakistan robbing the people of their core moral values. My own kids graduated with honors here in USA are asking a lot of questions about the ongoing unstable situation, with no foreseeable relief in Pakistan, is so painful and frustrating.

So? replied on Thursday, May 3, 2018 08:11 AM 

I think the above stated facts are well known.

Overseas pakistanis are worried for their kids as they know they will never be secure overseas due to the global politics and these kids will not be able to settle in pakistan as well due to the situation. So likely they will spend lives as second grade citizens in west or gulf while moaning about Pakistan with their keyboards and see their next generations become detached from their roots !

Tariq replied on Thursday, May 3, 2018 08:28 AM 

Tahir Chaudhry sahib, very nicely described.What is the way forward for people over here.How to break this vicious cycle.

Malik Amjad replied on Thursday, May 3, 2018 10:13 AM 

overseas must have some forum to raise their concerns, Opposition especially PTI team asad Umar or IK himself to be contacted to support overseas and clear their policy as they are in good position to form new Govt. Approach media to highlight, columnists to write on the topic. Known real estates like LRE are maintaining data of overseas investors and some one should lead like CMY sb to contact them and get feed back and raise joint voice to media/ public/ govt/ opposition.

Malik Amjad replied on Thursday, May 3, 2018 10:15 AM 

overseas must have some forum to raise their concerns, Opposition especially PTI team asad Umar or IK himself to be contacted to support overseas and clear their policy as they are in good position to form new Govt. Approach media to highlight, columnists to write on the topic. Known real estates like LRE are maintaining data of overseas investors and some one should lead like CMY sb to contact them and get feed back and raise joint voice to media/ public/ govt/ opposition.

Mian Hassan replied on Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:22 AM 

Government has announced amnesty for those having undeclared wealth. Those people should be really feared who have black money from soil of Pakistan and think that they should not be accountable to anybody. Its not fair. If others are not doing honesty or looting, why you and I. Unless we think for Pakistan, we can not grow. Its reality that there is no surety from Government for correct use of our taxes for country. Instead of agitating against new real estate laws, we should pressurize the government to introduce harsh laws to eradicate corruption in tax system from FBR/Government side. We should think positively and give taxes with honesty with assurance that it will be used in correct way. With the passage of time once market will be filled with filers then real estate activity will be normalized. Insha allah

Investor replied on Saturday, May 5, 2018 08:53 AM 

Relax. The bill was rejected in senate by farooq H naik.
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