{"id":43223,"date":"2024-07-28T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=43223"},"modified":"2024-07-28T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T11:59:33","slug":"punjab-cabinet-approves-new-garbage-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-cabinet-approves-new-garbage-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab cabinet approves new garbage tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Amidst the nation&#8217;s ongoing concerns over the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/passenger-train-fares-increased-again-amid-fuel-price-hike\/\">tax hikes<\/a> introduced in the annual budget earlier this year, a Punjab Cabinet standing committee has now approved the implementation of a new garbage tax.<\/p>\n<p>The Standing Committee for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/budget-2024-25-govt-proposes-major-budget-for-defence-development\/\">Finance and Development<\/a> sanctioned the tax during a recent meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Following the provincial cabinet&#8217;s approval, the new garbage tax will be imposed on both residential and commercial properties in rural and urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>In rural areas, the tax will be Rs200 per month for a 5-marla house, Rs400 for a 10-marla to 1 kanal house, Rs300 for small businesses and village shops, Rs700 for medium businesses, and Rs1,000 for large businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In urban areas, the tax will be Rs300 per month for a 5-marla house, Rs500 to Rs2,000 for a 10-marla to 1 kanal house, and Rs5,000 for houses larger than 1 kanal. Small businesses in cities will be taxed Rs500, medium businesses Rs1,000, and large businesses Rs3,000 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The garbage tax will be implemented across the province following the Punjab cabinet&#8217;s final approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Amidst the nation&#8217;s ongoing concerns over the tax hikes introduced in the annual budget earlier this year, a Punjab Cabinet standing committee has now approved the implementation of a new garbage tax. The Standing Committee for Finance and Development sanctioned the tax during a recent meeting. Following the provincial cabinet&#8217;s approval, the new garbage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19921,12865],"class_list":["post-43223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-garbage-tax","tag-punjab-cabinet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43224,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223\/revisions\/43224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}