{"id":77778,"date":"2025-06-17T18:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=77778"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:46:36","slug":"na-standing-committee-refuses-to-endorse-solar-import-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/na-standing-committee-refuses-to-endorse-solar-import-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"NA standing committee refuses to endorse solar import tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: \u00a0The budget proposal for an 18% sales tax on imported solar panels was rejected by the National Assembly&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/na-standing-committee-expresses-reservations-over-cryptocurrency-regulation\/\">standing committee<\/a> on finance on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The NA body&#8217;s meeting, which was presided over by Naveed Qamar, was informed by the Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) that solar cells are exempt from sales tax. &#8220;The importation of full solar panels is exempt from sales tax. Parts that are imported to be finished here are subject to taxes, the head of the FBR stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are talking about renewable energy, you shouldn&#8217;t slap a tax on solar panels,&#8221; Mirza Iftikhar stated. &#8220;Imported solar panels are less expensive than locally made ones, which are also of lower quality,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The FBR&#8217;s proposal was rejected by the standing committee members by a majority vote.<\/p>\n<p>In his dissenting remark, Javed Hanif of the MQM opposed the budget plan to impose an 18% general sales tax on solar panels, claiming that foreign solar panels are being dumped in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>He cautioned, &#8220;In the case of the GST relief, solar panels would not be manufactured in Pakistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: \u00a0The budget proposal for an 18% sales tax on imported solar panels was rejected by the National Assembly&#8217;s standing committee on finance on Tuesday. The NA body&#8217;s meeting, which was presided over by Naveed Qamar, was informed by the Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) that solar cells are exempt from sales tax. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[28146,29529],"class_list":["post-77778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-na-standing-committee","tag-solar-import-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77778","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=77778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77779,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77778\/revisions\/77779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}