The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has announced that the farmhouse tax, if levied, would be paid on land belonging to the Sharifs and their family members amid criticism that the Raiwind farmhouse of party chief Nawaz Sharif is out of the tax net. Senior Adviser to the Punjab Chief Minister Zulfiqar Khosa had said on Saturday that the Sharifs’ Raiwind residence would not be taxed because it was not a farmhouse. Dispelling the notion, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday that the tax on farmhouses set up on four kanals or more of land announced in the recent Punjab budget would be imposed without any discrimination. He said the day the Punjab Assembly approved the tax, he and his family would be the first to pay it.
