The Punjab government has decided to impose fine of Rs 5,000 to 10,000 upon the owners of vehicles bringing unregistered vehicle on road apart from taking action against the car dealers found involved in handing over the vehicles to the customers without registration. Punjab Minister for Excise and Taxation and Finance Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman said section 144 will also be imposed on car dealers to restrict them not to hand over the vehicles to the customers without their registration.
While presiding over a high-level meeting regarding motor registration number plates, Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman said non-changeable number plates will be issued by Excise and 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 nor fixed on another vehicle after first fixation.
Mujtaba said that 0.5 million number plates will be provided by Excise and Taxation Department from June this year. He said 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. He said 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.