Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday urged Sindh government to make laws enabling relevant departments to collect entertainment, property and other provincial taxes from all areas falling in the jurisdiction of cantonment boards. MQM's Parliamentary Leader Syed Sardar Ahmed during Sindh Assembly session proposed the government to include the cantonment areas in its taxation net through legislation.
To his proposal, Sindh Excise and Taxation Minister Mukesh Chawla agreed that the government has to make laws to widen its tax net to cantonment areas of the province. To a question, Chawla told the house that on the verbal directives of Sindh Governor in 2006, government has exempted the cinemas from entertainment tax. He said a majority of cinema houses fall in the cantonment broads' limits. He said the government had collected Rs 6.59 million of entertainment tax from July 2009 to December 2011. He said that all motorcycles plying on Karachi's roads are registered. "There are 162,3971 motorcycles registered in the city till October 31, 2013," he said, adding that there is not a single unregistered bike.
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