Traders Voice Support To LCCI For Efforts On Fixed Tax Withdrawal.

LAHORE -- The retailers have lauded the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) for its untiring efforts for withdrawal of fixed tax on electricity bills. Business community leaders from all the leading city markets have said that the Lahore Chamber has proved itself a true representative of the businessmen.

After receiving a number of complaints from the members, LCCI president Mian Nauman Kabir raised his voice to rescue the retailers who were imposed fixed tax through their electricity bills and urged the government to withdraw it immediately. LCCI efforts yield results and the government withdrew the fixed tax for retailers and shopkeepers which were imposed through their electricity bills for a year. Mian Nauman Kabir, while talking to a group of market leaders, said that the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry will leave no stone unturned to protect the stakes of the business community.

'It is good to see that the government has given weightage to the LCCI demand and took prompt action in this regard,' he added. The LCCI president said that in this era of high inflation and difficult economic crisis, the withdrawal of this decision by the government will help prevent the businessmen for bearing extra burden. He further stated that the cost of...