Punjab Property Tax Last Date Is 30 September 2026, 5% Rebate Ends Then

The Punjab property tax last date for 2026 is 30 September 2026. Pay the whole year's tax by then and the Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department takes 5 per cent off, according to the notice on its own website. Miss it and a surcharge of 1 per cent of the gross tax is added on 1 October, then again on the first day of every month after. The department wants the payment made through ePay Punjab this year, with the bill coming from a new self assessment step on its website.

The notice went up on excise.punjab.gov.pk as an Urdu poster with a megaphone on it, and the words that matter are in a green box: deposit property tax by 30 September 2026 and benefit from 5 per cent rebate. Under it, in smaller type, the department says to pay through ePay, and that a self assessment system for property tax has been introduced. We read that poster on 17 September 2026. Thirteen days remain.

The department's property tax page gives the rule behind the poster: a rebate equal to 5 per cent of the annual tax is allowed if the annual tax is paid in lump sum on or before 30 September of the financial year, per Excise Punjab's property tax page. The same page sets the surcharge for paying late. That 5 per cent figure matters, because the search results for this deadline are full of 10 per cent offers from municipal corporations in Indian Punjab, which have nothing to do with a house in Lahore or Faisalabad. The rules are provincial, so a flat in Karachi follows the Sindh property tax calendar instead.

What is the Punjab property tax last date for 2026?

30 September 2026 is the date, and it is the same date every year because the rule fixes it to 30 September of the financial year. The 2026 poster confirms it for this year. There is no extension announced, and the surcharge clause starts working the next morning, so plan on the date as printed.

Several rebate figures are circulating this month, and only one of them is on the department's 2026 notice. The 10 per cent figure comes from a self assessment scheme that 24NewsHD reported on 3 August 2026, quoting Additional Director General Ahmad Saeed: 10 per cent for owners who self assess and pay by 30 September, and 5 per cent for those who pay after that date but inside the same financial year. We could not find that scheme written on the department's site, so treat the 10 per cent as reported. The 5 per cent lump sum rebate is the one the department has printed.

And the extra 5 per cent for paying through ePay that some pages mention? That comes from a 2022 notice whose title promised it, on a department subdomain that no longer resolves. The 2026 poster asks you to use ePay but does not offer anything extra for it. If the department adds it, it will be on the home page. It was not there on 17 September.

How much does paying by 30 September save?

Paying in full by 30 September saves 5 per cent of the annual tax, and it avoids a surcharge that starts at 1 per cent and keeps growing. So the gap between paying on 30 September and paying on 1 October is 6 percentage points, and every month adds another point.

The Rs 20,000 is our example, not a rate. Your figure is whatever the department's assessment or your self assessment produces. The percentages are the department's, and the arithmetic is ours.

The rebate needs the full year paid in one go. Half now and half in November earns nothing, and the November half picks up the surcharge. The 30 September deadline that cuts the tax by 5 per cent has been the rule for years; what is new in 2026 is how the department wants the money to arrive.

How do you pay Punjab property tax through ePay?

The department's poster gives five steps: open the ET&NC website, self assess your property tax, enter the property particulars, download the property tax bill, and pay it through ePay Punjab from home. The self assessment step is new this year, and it replaces waiting for a bill to arrive.

1. Go to excise.punjab.gov.pk and find the property tax self assessment entry. Existing owners enter the 28 digit code printed on the old property tax bill, according to the 24NewsHD report; new units are uploaded fresh.
2. Enter the property particulars: location, covered area, use, whether it is self occupied or rented.
3. Download the bill the system produces. This carries the amount and the payment reference.
4. Open ePay Punjab, the app or the website, and choose property tax to generate a PSID, which is the 17 digit payment slip number the banks recognise.
5. Pay the PSID through a bank app, internet banking, an ATM, JazzCash, Easypaisa or a bank counter, and keep the receipt. The same ePay app also lists traffic e-challans, which are worth checking in the same sitting.

Steps 4 and 5 are the same route as for token tax, and the detail of finding a property by number or CNIC and paying Punjab property tax online on ePay has not changed. What has changed is that the 2026-27 provincial budget made online payment the only route for property tax, as 24NewsHD reported on 17 June 2026, with a 5 per cent discount for owners who self assess. We have not seen the budget document, so the online only rule is reported, but the poster's silence on cheques and counters points the same way.

Our advice is to do the self assessment this week, not on 29 September. A figure you disagree with can be queried on 1035 while there is still time to pay the rebate price.

Are excise offices open on the weekends before the deadline?

We could not confirm it. A report reached us that district offices would open on 19, 20, 26 and 27 September 2026 to take payments, and we searched the department's site and Pakistani news in English and Urdu for it. Nothing. The poster says to pay from home through ePay, which is open on a Sunday anyway.

If you need an office, because the self assessment shows a wrong covered area or the property is not on the record at all, call 1035 first and ask whether your district office is open that Saturday. The department has opened offices on weekends before, most recently around the 30 June token tax rush, so the report is plausible. Plausible is not published.

What happens after 30 September 2026?

The rebate is gone and the surcharge begins. On 1 October, 1 per cent of the gross payable tax is added. On 1 November, another 1 per cent. The rule says the first day of every month of delay, so by the end of the financial year an unpaid bill carries 9 percentage points of surcharge on top of the lost rebate.

The reported self assessment scheme softens this a little, with a 5 per cent concession for owners who self assess and pay after 30 September but before the financial year ends. If that is real, it is aimed at people who never had a bill and are entering the system for the first time. It is not a reason for an owner with a bill in hand to wait.

• Paid by 30 September in full: 5 per cent off.
• Paid in October: 1 per cent added, rebate lost.
• Paid in March 2027: 6 per cent added, rebate lost.
• Self assessed and paid after 30 September: 5 per cent off, reported, not on the notice.

Common questions about the Punjab property tax deadline

What is the last date to pay Punjab property tax in 2026?

30 September 2026. The department's notice and its property tax rules both give that date, and the 5 per cent rebate depends on paying the full year by then.

How much is the rebate?

5 per cent of the annual tax, for a lump sum payment on or before 30 September. A 10 per cent figure for self assessed owners was reported on 3 August 2026 but is not on the department's notice.

Is there an extra discount for paying through ePay?

Not on the 2026 notice. A 2022 notice offered an additional 5 per cent for ePay; the 2026 poster asks for ePay but offers nothing extra.

What is the surcharge for paying late?

1 per cent of the gross payable tax on the first day of every month of delay after 30 September. It repeats monthly, so October is 1 per cent and December is 3 per cent.

Can I still pay at the bank counter or by cheque?

The department's rules page still describes treasury and bank deposits, but the 2026-27 budget was reported to make online payment the only route. Pay the ePay PSID at a bank counter if you want a person in front of you.

Will the offices open on the weekend before 30 September?

We could not find any announcement. Call 1035 before travelling.

Last checked and sources

Last checked 17 September 2026. We read the Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department home page at excise.punjab.gov.pk, which carries the announcement Get 5% Rebate on Property Tax till 30 September 2026, and the notice poster it links to, an Urdu image saying to deposit property tax by 30 September 2026 for a 5 per cent rebate, to pay through ePay, that a self assessment system has been introduced, the five steps from the ET&NC website to payment at home, and the helpline 1035. We read the department's property tax page for the rule that the rebate is 5 per cent of the annual tax for a lump sum payment on or before 30 September and that a 1 per cent surcharge on the gross payable tax is imposed on the first day of every month of delay. Reported rather than read at source: the self assessment scheme with 10 per cent by 30 September and 5 per cent after, the 28 digit code and the quote from Additional Director General Ahmad Saeed, 24NewsHD, 3 August 2026; the budget 2026-27 rule making property tax payment online only with a 5 per cent self assessment discount, 24NewsHD 17 June 2026 and The Asian Mirror 18 June 2026; the ePay payment channels, from the ePay Punjab app listing and third party guides, because epay.punjab.gov.pk is a JavaScript application our tool could not read. Not found: the extra 5 per cent for ePay, which appears only in the title of a 2022 notice on a subdomain that no longer answers; and the weekend openings on 19, 20, 26 and 27 September 2026, which we could not find on the department's site or in any outlet. The Rs 20,000 example and the month by month percentages are our arithmetic from the department's rule. We hold no Punjab property and did not make a payment.