Notice for recovery of Rs17m tax served on DJ Butt

E-Paper | March 01, 2026

BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has served notice on DJ Butt for the recovery of Rs17 million tax on the basis of his claim he had made in a suit filed against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).

PRA Chairman Dr Raheel Ahmed Siddiqui said that DJ Butt had received over Rs50 million from the PTI while he had filed a suit for the recovery of remaining amount of Rs60 million.

He said the PRA had issued a notice to DJ Butt to pay a tax on the total amount of about Rs110 million at the rate of 16 per cent, which came to about Rs17 million.

Dr Siddiqui clarified that the PRA had nothing to do with a sum of Rs2.5 million Mr Butt had received after having a compromise with the PTI. He said the hearing of DJ Butt’s case before the PRA was fixed for Aug 3 when a final decision would be announced.

Industrial estate

The Punjab government will soon establish an industrial estate on about 500 acres of land here.

This was stated by acting chief executive officer Naveed Mushtaq Gill of the Punjab Industrial Estate Development and Management Company (PIEDMC) during his recent visit to the Bahawalpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI).

The demand for the establishment of a new industrial estate in Bahawalpur had been made by the BCCI to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif sometime back.

Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2015

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zafar

Jul 30, 2015 08:34am

I don't know how this tax works, but you can't charge tax on money that wasn't earned.

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Fawad khan

Jul 30, 2015 09:11am

This proves punjab revenue authority is highly politicized. No one is Pakistan had ever recieved a notice for tax evasion before. A politicized institution is non professional institution and no wonder they fail in everything.

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Jul 30, 2015 09:26am

@zafar He has earned that income, just hasn't being paid as yet. Tax is payable on income not on payment received. If payment is not received at all then he can write it off as bad debt and claim it back on future returns. Just a few basics:)

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Ali

Jul 30, 2015 09:39am

Wish they can collect tax from landlords, politicians and other no-paying business community with same zeal; Our leaders (past and present) should be held accountable for they are leading the nation to same fate as Greece - well know for their abhorrence to pay tax. Its a no brainer that 1% of the tax paying working class cannot feed 99%.

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Merra Jee

Jul 30, 2015 10:05am

This guys make a lot of money!

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Haider Rehman

Jul 30, 2015 10:08am

Good job. But why NS pays 12 lakh rupees tax?

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Yaqoob

Jul 30, 2015 10:13am

He must pay taxes on the income that he made . Period .

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Irfan

Jul 30, 2015 10:56am

There is an idiom appropriate for his misery here "Khaya piya khuch nahi. Glass tora baraana".

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DisparateAamer

Jul 30, 2015 10:57am

@SJ This amount is revenue, not income. Also in this case accounting income would be different than taxable income. They can't serve tax notice on whole 110 million!

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Taimur

Jul 30, 2015 11:21am

@zafar If you are Pakistani you should know. That is the dilemma that most of us do not know how our tax system works and when we go to some other country then our foremost objective is to get knowledge about their tax system because we know if we do not know how it works then we will suffer. Anyhow, he has received part of money before June 30 and is liable to pay tax on that money.

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PHILOSOPHER (from Japan)

Jul 30, 2015 01:30pm

...and why not start inquiry about the source of funds PTI used in 126 days dharna ?because if they paid 110 million (including accrued payment) its look like a big business.

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KHI91

Jul 30, 2015 03:09pm

@DisparateAamer That is a sales tax chargeable on revenue not income.

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