ISLAMABAD: The coordinator of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said that retailers would have to come under tax net at all costs and the government would not come under any pressure of traders.
Rana Ehsan Afzal stated this while traders and businesspersons across the country went on a complete strike today, calling upon the government to reduce the taxes and provide relief to power consumers who have been receiving inflated bills.
The prime minister’s coordinator also said that the government was ready to hold talks with traders and correct any wrong done in the system of the Federal Board of Revenue. However, he made it clear that the retailers have to be brought under the tax net at all costs.
He said that if the traders think that they would force the government to change its plan of bringing retailers into the text net, it was not possible as the government had made the decision for the best interest of the country’s economy.
On the call of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, a complete shutter-down strike is being observed across the country. According to media reports, all markets and other business centres are closed in all major cities and towns in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakthunkhwa.
The traders and Jamaat-e-Islami leadership have been demanding that the government should reduce the taxes on traders and salaried class and also terminate the agreements signed with the independence power producer in the past.
However, the government seems not ready to accept the demands.
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