Businesspersons slam increased taxes

Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Fuad Ishaq rejected imposition of fixed tax on traders and warned to protest if the government didn't withdraw unnecessary and unjust levies forthwith.

Faud Ishaq was talking to a delegation of traders from Saddar Bazar Peshawar led by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Tajir Ittehad President Mujeebur Rehman here at the chamber house on Monday. Other members of the traders’ delegation include Aftab Ahmad Khan, Naveed Ibrar, Malik Saeed, Nisar Khalil, Naseeruddin Hashmi, Javed Khan, Sumeer Manzoor, Muhammadullah, Nauman Durrani, and Fazal Mehmood.

The meeting was also attended by SCCI vice president Ejaz Khan Afridi and Secretary Sohail Anjum.

Mujeebur Rehman apprised the meeting about apprehensions of traders on imposition of SRO: 1064 (I)/2024 dated 22 July 2024 by Federal Board of Revenue, through which a fixed tax from Rs30,000 to Rs45,000 per shop was imposed. Tajir Ittehad urged SCCI to take up this issue with the government and FBR in an effective manner.