Gas Cess Another Anti Poor Policy of PMLN: PTI
PTI Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhary said PTI strongly reject imposition of Gas Infrastructure Development Cess, which PMLN Government is going to impose on the poor domestic gas consumers.
He said it has been clear now that PMLN Government always comes up with pro rich and anti tax policy. He questioned why the Government goes after the big guns rather than burdening the common citizens via indirect taxes. He said the Government has increased GST on petroleum products by a record 10% in less than two months with no accountability from the assembly.
Secretary General Yasmin Rashid said parliamentary panel has approved the amended Gas Infrastructure Development Cess bill to give legal cover to the collection of Rs95 billion and increase the burden on gas consumers.
She said poor consumers are being made to pay indirect taxes through their nose and parliamentarians are backing their own made laws for self-enrichment without bounds.
Information secretary Andleeb Abbas termed the imposition of Gas Infrastructure Development Cess as unjustified; she said the collection of such an amount from the consumers to implement the gas pipeline projects, which were still on paper and God knows when these projects will be made functional. She said this together with the expensive LNG import is going to create a gas bomb as bad as the electricity bomb. She demanded that the government immediately withdraw this tax.