{"id":96675,"date":"2026-01-07T18:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=96675"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:26:28","slug":"sugar-prices-likely-to-rise-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/sugar-prices-likely-to-rise-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar prices likely to rise in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: With the rules and sugar cess, there are chances of increased <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fbr-sealed-two-sugar-mills-in-central-punjab-for-serious-violations-of-tax-laws\/\">sugar prices<\/a> across Pakistan. The Punjab government has imposed a sugar cess of Rs 5 on 40 kg of sugar, an official notification of which has also been issued.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar, ghee, cooking oil, flour, and tomatoes, onions have become expensive. According to a private channel report, the sugar cess has been implemented under the Punjab Finance Act 1964. Of this tax, two and a half rupees will be paid by sugar mills and two and a half rupees by farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The government maintains that the money collected from the sugar cess will be spent on the construction and improvement of roads connected to the sugar mills.<br \/>\nSend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: With the rules and sugar cess, there are chances of increased sugar prices across Pakistan. The Punjab government has imposed a sugar cess of Rs 5 on 40 kg of sugar, an official notification of which has also been issued. Sugar, ghee, cooking oil, flour, and tomatoes, onions have become expensive. According to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":52182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[2273],"class_list":["post-96675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","tag-sugar-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96675","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=96675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96677,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96675\/revisions\/96677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}