Trader protes­t agains­t taxati­on polici­es of the PTI govtRAWALPINDI: Traders of Rawalpindi city and cantonment areas on Monday announced that they will observe a two-day shutter-down strike on October 29 and 30. All Pakistan Markazi Anjuman Tajiran (APMAT) has given a strike call across the country against taxation policies of the incumbent government which has been completely supported by traders of garrison town. They added that taxation policies of Federal Revenue Board (FBR) had shrunk the business in the market while the traders were compelled to move their businesses to low-scale and sack employees. Criticising the sales tax on traders, they told that even the small traders would have to hire a lawyer for documentation for taxes and questioned that how they would afford it. The traders once again demanded the government to impose fixed-taxation system owing to which it would receive taxes timely while the less-educated traders would also face no problems.

Source: The Express Tribune October 29, 2019 04:52 UTC