2024-07-28 10:04:07
(24 News) Every citizen of Pakistan is fed up with the rising prices of expensive electricity and petrol, but it would not be wrong to say that living has become cheap. .
According to the details, Awam Pakistan Party leader and former finance minister Miftah Ismail suggested the government to remove sales tax and advance income tax on electricity bills of domestic consumers from July to September. The percentage will be reduced, he said that the government should also make the sacrifice of reducing its expenses, the electricity bills are not only the cause of political instability in Pakistan, but they are alienating the PML-G from the people, and the rulers who take sacrifices from the people are also. Make a sacrifice.
Giving another suggestion, he said that 46% of the amount in capacity charges goes to the federal government, taxes are being levied on furnace oil and LNG, taxes should be reduced on the four government-owned LNG plants, which power plants on the grid. The tax on their fuel should be abolished, Muftah Ismail said that the government should end the expenses of 400 to 500 billion rupees for the members of the National and Provincial Assembly, and the amount of PSDP should be reduced by 50 billion rupees.
He said that due to electricity bills, Pakistan is suffering from political instability. If the sovereign guarantee is defaulted by the Chinese IPPs, then the country’s economy will be severely damaged. The former finance minister said that middle class workers are suffering the consequences of non-billers, electricity thieves and line losses. As Pakistan Awam Party will hold a symbolic protest outside the K Electric office on Sunday, citizens are requested to participate in the protest in large numbers. He said that there is a need to change the thinking for public service in Pakistan. Electricity departments are not serving the people. There is a lot of load shedding in rural areas but despite this electricity bills are not reducing.
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2024-07-28 10:04:07