Misguided Farmers.

The government has increased the tax on tobacco purchasing from Rs. 10 per kg to Rs. 380 per kg.

The tax has been instrumental in the documentation of the purchase of tobacco by manufacturers of cigarettes and other tobacco products. It is an adjustable tax having no additional burden on the manufacturers.

However, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Farmers Rights Protection Association (KPFRPA) has opposed the government's decision and wrongly associated it with farmers.

The above-mentioned advance tax is applicable only on the tobacco that enters the Green Leaf Threshing (GLT) plant. All manufacturers who purchase tobacco from farmers must process tobacco through GLT before it can be used for the manufacturing of cigarettes.

Illegal cigarette manufacturers are pressurizing the FBR through farmers for the withdrawal of this major documentation...