Punjab Government announces the launch of “Token Tax Identification Stickers”

Lahore: Special Monitoring Unit (SMU), Law and Order, Chief Minister’s Office announces the launch of “Token Tax Identification Stickers” with the collaboration of Excise and Taxation (E&T) department.

These stickers form a part of SMU’s “Transport sahulat Program” (Transport Facilitation Program). Sr Member SMU Salman Sufi and Secretary Excise and taxation Ali Tahir are spearheading the Transport reform program as per the directions of Chief Minister Punjab.

These stickers will be available to token tax payers across Punjab from July 1, 2015. The aim of these stickers is to uphold the dignity of token tax payers by identifying them on road and distinguishing them from tax defaulters at token tax check points. Consequently, these stickers will eliminate the inconvenience caused to token tax payers on these checkpoints.

The government is pleased to declare all token tax payers as “VITP” i-e Very Important Tax Payers. This VITP concept will be implemented in the second phase in all tax collecting departments of the government of Punjab and will be awarded to all taxpaying citizens of Punjab as the government believes that the citizens should not be considered important due to their social status but due to their allegiance and commitment to the law of their land. Therefore, the government only considers the taxpaying law abiding citizens as very important.

The token tax identification stickers will be of three types: Lifetime, annual and quarterly and will be issued in E&T offices at the time of payment of token tax. The month and year of expiry of payment is prominently written on these stickers. These stickers are retro-reflective and contain security features because of which they cannot be replicated. These stickers will be displayed on the windshield of the vehicles.