HomeBusinessGovt asked to withdraw all taxes in electricity bills.

LAHORE -- Massive electricity bills, unjustified sales tax and other taxes, fuel adjustment charges will bury the businessmen and the common man alive. The government should withdraw all the taxes in the electricity bills immediately as these are unbearable.

In a statement, Chairman Punjab Dyes and Chemicals Merchants Association and former senior vice president LCCI, Khawaja Khawar Rashid said that the business community is unable to understand that why not the incentives of ministers and bureaucrats in the form of free electricity, petrol, gas and other utilities are withdrawn.

He said that the facilities of free electricity, petrol, gas and other utilities to the federal and provincial ministers, assembly members and bureaucrats should be ended instantly.

He said that they should be instructed to pay electricity bills from their own salary and pay utilities as they can better afford these things as compared to a businessman and lay man. The situation cannot be better until they go through the pain from which the people are suffering.

Khawaja Khawar Rashid said that the government has imposed heavy charges in...