Traders Reject Collection Of 'Fixed-Tax' Through Electricity Bills.

Peshawar -- The business community and trade unions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday slammed collection of 'fixed tax' through electricity bills and asked the federal government to refrain of traumatising the inflation-hit community and withdraw its anti-masses decision forthwith.

Chairing a meeting of local traders, here at chamber house, Hasnain Khurshid, president Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), said that government collecting Rs3000 to Rs20000 sales tax per month in the electricity bills, which is unjustifiable and couldn't be accepted at any cast. He said that without differentiating between small and large-scale businesses and godowns, the forced system of fixed sale tax on commercial power meters was reflection of the government's anti-business policies, and tantamount to economic-murder of traders and business community.

The meeting was attended besides others by the chamber vice president Imran Khan, Javed Akhtar, Anjuman-e-Tajaran Peshawar president Haji Afzal, trade leaders, offices-bearers of various bazaars and markets' associations. They termed the government decision as economic murder of trader community, and said that it will also badly affect the inflation...