Excise department takes initiative to minimize car lifting

Lahore: Punjab Minister for Excise & Taxation and Finance, Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said that non-changeable number plates will be issued by Excise & Taxation Department for checking theft of vehicles and duplicate number plates would be provided by the department in case of bumper accident or broken number plate. He said that number plates will not be removed or fixed on another vehicle after first fixation.

He said that section 144 will also be imposed on car dealers and they will not hand over the vehicles to the customers without their registration. He said that fine of Rs. 5000 to 10000 will be imposed on the owner on bringing unregistered vehicle on the road and action will also be taken against the concerned dealer. He said that it is also being considered to introduce uniform number plates across the province on the pattern of NADRA and citizens can contact Excise office of their respective city for this purpose but number plates will be issued from Lahore.

He was presiding over a high level meeting regarding motor registration number plates. Secretaries of Excise and Taxation, Transport, Home, IT departments and senior authorities of police attended the meeting.

Mujataba Shuja-ur-Rehman said that five lakh number plates will be provided by Excise & Taxation Department from June this year. He said that online collection of token tax, property tax and other taxes from Bank of Punjab, Ufone, Mastercard and other departments is also under consideration so that payment of tax could be made simple and easy and citizens will be able to pay their tax at any franchise in any part of the country.