Punjab Property Tax Project

Increasing tax collection is an area of focus globally. In Pakistan, tax collection, and property tax in particular is a substantial issue even relative to other developing countries. Property tax collection in Punjab is roughly a fifth of the level of developing countries (World Bank, 2006). For 5 years Excise and Taxation Department (E&T) Punjab worked with CERP and its team of international researchers from Harvard University, London School of Economics and MIT to improve performance tax collection. The collaboration focused on two distinct projects: Performance Pay Project and Merit-Based Transfers and Posting Project, that were designed to improve tax collector performance by introducing performance based human resource reforms.