ISLAMABAD: As many as 202 lawmakers of the Punjab Assembly declared in sworn statements on their 2008 nomination papers that they paid zero tax, thus admitting that they were tax evaders.
A study of their nomination papers conducted by The News revealed that several prominent figures had not paid a penny in income tax when they contested the last general elections, though they spent millions of rupees on campaigns.
Among them are chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, former chief minister Dost Muhammad Khosa, his father, now Senator, Zulfiqar Khosa, Zaeem Qadri, Kh. Salman Rafique, Shaukat Basra and others. Shahbaz Sharif, however, paid income tax in the following years that exceeded five million rupees in 2012.
Other than 202 non-taxpayers, 58 MPAs paid less than Rs10,000 as tax. The Punjab Assembly comprises 371 members. The nomination papers of seven MPAs could not be found hence their taxes remained unexamined.
Details of all the MPAs together with their income tax is given below:
Among those 202 MPAs who declared zero income tax are: Lt Col (retd) Shabbir Ahmad, Ch Sarfraz Afzal, Mrs Umar Farooq, Malik Iftikhar, Ziaullah Shah, Shahan Malik, Malik Khurram, Malik Itbar, Iffat Liaqat, Khurram Nawab, Muhammad Fayyaz, Ch Nadeem Khadim, Ch Awais Aslam Madhana, Sardar Kamil Gujjar, Rana Munawar, Ghulam Nizam-ud-Din Sialvi, Abdul Hafeez Khan, Ali Haider Noor Khan Niazi, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Malik Adil Hussain Utra, Zafar Zulqarnain Sahi, Maj. (retd) Abdul Rehman Rana, Rai Shah Jahan Kharal, Rai Ejaz Hussain, Malik Shamshair Wattoo, Rao Kashif Raheem, Khalid Imtiaz Baluch, Al-Hajj Ilyas Chinioti, Syed Hassan Murtaza, Hafiz Qamar Hayat Kathiya, Najaf Abbas Sial, Lt Col (retd) Sardar Ayub, Nazia Raheel, Dr Ashraf Chohan, Ch Tariq Gujjar, Shazia Ashfaq Mattu, Sh. Mumtaz Ahmad, Mian Ghulam Sarwar, Qaiser Sandhu, Zulfiqar Bhinder, Khalid Pervaiz Virk, Irfan Bashir Gujjar, Shaukat Manzur Cheema, Malik Fiaz Ahmad, Ch Asadullah, Ch Irfan-ud-Din, Tariq Sahi, Asif Bhaghat, Maj(retd)Zulfiqar Gondal, Waseem Afzal Gondal, M. Iqbal, Rana Shamim, Tahir Hundli, Tanveer-ul-Islam, Munawar Gill, Jamil Ashraf, Yahya Gul Nawaz, Liaqat Ghumman, Awais Qasim, Samina Wasim Butt, Lt Col(retd)Shujaat Ahmad, Aasim Sharif, Kh. Salman Rafiq, Ch. Shehzad Ahmad, Waseem Qadir, Rana Mashood Ahmad, Ijaz Khan, Dr Saeed Elahi, Zaeem Qadri, Yasin Amir, Tajamal Hussain, Ghulam Habib Awan, Farooq Yousaf Ghurki, Rana Mubashir Iqbal, Ch Abdul Ghafoor, Khurram Ijaz, Ch Ali Asghar Manda, Munawar Manj, Rana Tanvir Nasir, Tariq Bajwa, Rana Arshad, Shah Jehan Bhatti, Abrar Hussain Shah, Rai Aslam Khan, Malik Akhtar Naul, Ahmad Ali Tolu, Sardar Muhammad Hussain Dogar, Ahsan Raza Khan, Raza Ali Gillani, Nadeem Abbas Rabera Kharal, Malik Ali Abbas Khokhar, Abdul Waheed Ch, Nazim Hussain Shah, Ahmad Hussain Deharr, Amir Ghani, Rana Ejaz Ahmad Noon, Mehdi Abbas Khan, Neghma Mushtaq Lang, Akram Kanjoo, Rana M. Ijaz Noon, Ahmad Khan Baluch, Ghulam Jaffar Sargana, Amir Hiyat Hiraj, Malik Nadeem Kamran, Malik Jalal-ud-Din Dhakku, Hafeez Akhtar Ch, Shehzad Saeed Cheema, Iqbal Langriyal, Mansab Dogar, Pir Kashif Chishti, Fiaz Ahmed Warraich, Khalid Saleem Bhatti, Shaher Yar Khan, Tariq Iqbal Ch, Naeem Khan, Sardar Muhammad Khan Khichi, Sardar Meer Badshah Qaisrani, Fatah Muhammad Buzdar, Amjad Farooq Khosa, Zulfiqar Khosa, Dost Muhammad Khosa, Sardar Sher Ali Gorchani, Sardar Athar Gorchani, Atif Mazari, Ahmad Yar Hinjra, Bilal Khar, Ehsanullah Nolatia, Irshad Khan, Jawad Kamran Khar, Imran Qureshi, Ahmad Qaswar Langrial, Abdul Qayyum Jatoi, Allah Wasaya alias Chunnu Khan Leghari, Shehzad Rasool Khan, Aamir Talal Gopang, Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Rai Safdar Abbas Bhatti, Sardar Qaisar Magassi, Iftikhar Khitran alias Babar Khan, Malik Jehan Zeb Waran, Shah Rukh Malik, Zulfiqar Ali, Mian Kazim Pirzada, Safdar Gill, Rana Abdul Rauf, Muhammad Ali Lalika, Shaukat Basra, Shahid Anjum, Ghazanfar Khan, Col (retd) Naveed Sajid, Makhdoom M. Irtaza, Javed Hussain Gujjar, Syed Abdul Qadir Gillani, Shagufta Sheikh, Zaib Jaafar, Rahat Ajmal, Nighat Nasir Sheikh, Rehana Hadees, Tayyaba Zameer, Ghazala Saad, Nafeesa Amin, Afshan Farooq, Farah Deeba, Anjum Safdar, Yasmeen Khan, Fariha Nayab, Maiza Hameed, Shameela Aslam, Syma Mohy-ud-Din, Kiran Dar, Mahmuda Sahi, Nasim Nasir, Ghazala Raza Rana, Dr Zamurrad Yasin, Deeba Mirza, Shamsa Gohar, Aneela Akhtar Ch, Sakina Shaheen, Faiza Malik, Sameena Naveed, Asifa Farooqi, Nargis Zafar, Kishwar Qayyum, Fauzia Behram, Nazma Javed Hashmi, Sajida Mir, Nargis Parveen Awan, Amina Buttar, Naseem Lodhi, Saba Sadiq, Farhana Afzal, Majida Zaidi, Samina Khawar, Ayesha Javed, Qamar Amir Ch, Inbsat Hamid, Seemal Kamran, Dr Asma Madot, Joel Amir, Khalil Tahir, Tahir Naveed and Rufan Julias.
There are 58 MPAs whose income tax amount ranged from Rs100 to Rs10,000. They are: Hafiz Nauman, Ch. Abdul Raza Dhillon, Talat Yaqoob, Rais Ibrahim Khalil, Rehana Ejaz, Dr Malik Mukhtar Bharath, Naveed Anjum, Shahid Khalil Noor, Ch Abdullah Yousaf, Ch Mumtaz Jajja, Imran Zafar, Ch M. Arshad, Riffat Sultana, Khurram Gulfam, Ch Ghulam Nabi, Feroz Joyia, Mian Fida Hussain, Moeen Wattoo, Amina Ulfat, Shehr Yar Riaz, Malik Nosher Lungrial, Mian Shafi Muhammad, Amjad Ali Mayo, Javed Alauddin Sajid, Mian M. Aslam, Dr Samia Amjad, Ch Saqlain, Qazi Ahmad Saeed, Rana Afzal Khan, Nargis Faiz Malik, Tariq Hotiyana, Shafiq Arain, Khalid Sargana, Rana Babar, Rana Iqbal, Rahila Naeem, Ihsan-ud-Din Qureshi, Shabina Riaz, Malik Rafique, Shafiq Gujjar, Safina Syma Khar, Bilal Asghar Warraich, Yaqoob Sethi, Rizwan Nowaiz Gill, Allah Rakha, Dr Akhtar Malik, Ch Muhammad Ayyaz, Malik M. Nawaz, Saqlain Sipra, Dr Asad Ashraf, Mian Yawar Zaman, Laila Muqaddus, Sagheera Islam, Najmi Saleem, Khadija Umar, Arqam Khan, Malik Amir Dogar and Malik M. Abbas Raan.
Tax paid by 25 MPAs ranged between Rs10,001 and Rs20,000. They are: Dr Asad Muazzam, Ch Arshad, Shahid Khan, Mehr Ishtiaq, Malik Zahoor Anwar, Tahir Sindhu, Jamil Shah, Yasir Raza Malik, Masood Lali, Haji Ishaq, Asif Saeed Manais, Raja Fiaz Sarwar, Muhammad Yar Hiraj, Kamran Michael, Mehr Rab Nawaz Lak, Rafi-ud-Din Bokhari, Ch Javed Advocate, Engr. Shehzad Elahi, Uzma Zahid Bokhari, Eng. Javed Akbar Dhilloon, Sanaullah Mastikhel, Mian Azam, Mehr Ejaz Achlana, Malik Iqbal Channar and Ch M. Shafique.
There are 14 MPAs whose income tax amount ranged between Rs20,001 to Rs30,000. They are: Dr Musarrat Hassan, Rana Sanaullah Khan, Liaqat Abbas Bhatti, Malik Javed Iqbal Awan, Mehr Sultan Sikandar Bharwana, Hamid Nasir Chattha, Robina Shaheen Wattoo, Humaira Owais Shahid, Neelam Jabbar, Ch Peer Ashraf Rasool, Amir Hayat Rokhari, Rai Farooq Umar Kharl, Shafiq Khan and Asif Malik.
There are six MPAs whose income tax amount ranged between Rs30,001 to 40,000. They are: Nawabzada Shams Haider, Mian Naseer Ahmad, Imran Khalid Butt, Asif Manzoor Mohal, Zafar Iqbal Nagra and Dr Tahir Ali Javed,
11 MPAs paid tax between Rs40,001 to Rs50,000. They are: Amanullah Dareshak, Lt Col(retd) Abbas Chaudhry, M. Rizwan, Shahzadi Umerzadi Tiwana, Khalid Javed, Asghar Ghural, Col (retd) Shujah Khanzada, Makhdoom Iftikhar Gillani, Peer Walayat Shah Khagga, Ashraf Sohna and Arifa Khalid.
Two MPAs whose income tax amount ranged between Rs50,001 and Rs60,000 are: Haji Naeem Ansari and Rana Iqbal,
Two other MPAs whose income tax amount ranged between Rs60,001 to Rs70,000 are: Saeed Mughal and Saeed Akbar Khan.
Four MPAs who paid income tax between Rs70,001 and Rs80,000 are: Mohsin Latif, Kh. M. Islam, Makhdoom Ali Raza Shah and Bushra Nawaz Gardezi.
There is only one MPA, Dr Afzal, whose income tax amount ranged between Rs80,001 and Rs90,000.
Six MPAs who paid income tax between Rs90,001 and Rs100,000 are: Raja Riaz, Karam Elahi Bandial, Atta Muhammad Maneka, Raja Tariq Kiani, Dr Farrukh Javed and Haji Yaqub Sheikh.
Seven MPAs paid tax between Rs100,001 and Rs150,000. They are: Kh. Imran Nazir, Tanvir Aslam Malik, Mian Tariq, Tariq Alloana, M. Ikhlaq, Raja Hanif Abbasi and Rana Asif Mehmood.
Six MPAs whose income tax amount ranged between Rs150,000 and Rs200,000 are: Yousaf Leghari, Sardar Asif Nakai, Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, Sher Ali Khan, Sardar Dildar Cheema and Faiza Asghar.
Four MPAs whose income tax amount ranged between Rs200,001 and Rs300,000 are: Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, Raja Qamar-ul-Islam, Malik Waris Shad and Imran Ashraf.
One MPA who paid between Rs300,001 and Rs400,000 as tax is Zobia Rubab Malik.
Five MPAs whose income tax amount ranged between Rs400,001 and Rs500,000 are: Ch. Aamar Sultan Cheema, Qasim Zia, Zahir-ud-Din, Ramzan Siddique and Aamir Saeed Ansari.
There are three MPAs whose income tax amount ranged between Rs500,001 and Rs10,000, 00. They are: Ejaz Shafi, Raza Nasrullah Ghuman and Muhammad Afzal.
Seven MPAs who paid one million rupees or more as tax are: Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood, Nishat Ahmad Daha, Javed Bhatti, Ch Moonis Elahi, Sheikh Alaud Din, Iftikhar Ahmad Khan and Haji Liaqat Ali
Nomination papers of seven MPAs were not found to check their tax details. They are: Shaukat Aziz Bhatti, Muhammad Ajmal, Karam Dad Wahla, Mohsin Khan Leghari, Sahibzada Gazain Abbasi, Abbas Zafar Hiraj and Parvaiz Rafique.
Umar Cheema
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
From Print Edition
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-21549-202-Punjab-MPAs-are-declared-tax-evaders
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