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Sales tax will have to be reduced to 9pc from 16pc: Farooq Sattar

Sales tax will have to be reduced to 9pc from 16pc: Farooq Sattar
May 26, 2017

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – MQM Pakistan chairman Farooq Sattar has said that the sales tax will have to be reduced 9 percent from 16 percent.

Talking to the media on Friday, he said that the poor had been destroyed.

He urged the government to use the resources for the welfare of the masses.

“The sales tax on electricity, kerosene oil and gas will have to be reduced to zero,” he said.

The MQM Pakistan chief asked the government to give a relief to the poor and the middle class.

“The provinces will have to generate resources like the Federation,” he added.