According to sources, the local revenue department’s sub-registrar office reportedly inserted fictitious entries in the property records in 2019–20 in place of stamp duty and withholding tax, costing the national exchequer about Rs70 million.
As per reports, a team of deed writers was responsible for creating bogus Federal Board of Revenue vouchers for the 2% withholding tax and 2% stamp duty assessed by the federal government on all sorts of residential, commercial, and agricultural properties in 2016.
The criminal conduct went on for a long period, scamming approximately Rs.70 million.
On the condition of anonymity, a sub-registrar office employee stated, “Instead of paying the sum obtained in this respect with the specified counter. The deed writers used to make fraudulent FBR vouchers and attach them to the property record.”
According to him, certain subordinates in the benediction of sub-registrar were also connected to this wrongdoing.
