{"id":43371,"date":"2024-07-30T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=43371"},"modified":"2024-07-30T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:38:08","slug":"punjab-govt-to-introduce-new-garbage-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/punjab-govt-to-introduce-new-garbage-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt to introduce new garbage tax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LAHORE: Amidst the nation\u2019s ongoing concerns over the\u00a0tax hikes\u00a0introduced in the annual budget earlier this year, a Punjab Cabinet standing committee has now approved the implementation of a new garbage tax.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Standing Committee for Finance and Development sanctioned the tax during a recent meeting. The provincial government will introduce a new indirect tax by outsourcing the sanitation system across the province.<\/p>\n

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Following the provincial cabinet\u2019s<\/a> approval, the new garbage tax will be imposed on both residential and commercial properties in rural and urban areas.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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

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

Earlier, local governments in some urban centers began charging the citizens for sanitation and water supply services in the last few decades. And now a paid mechanism for garbage collection is also being introduced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAHORE: Amidst the nation\u2019s ongoing concerns over the\u00a0tax hikes\u00a0introduced 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. The provincial government will introduce a new indirect tax by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19921,189,19958],"class_list":["post-43371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garbage-tax","tag-punjab","tag-punjab-garbage-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43371","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43373,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43371\/revisions\/43373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}