All Pakistan Agricultural Produce Traders' Federation (APAPTF) has rejected the federal government newly imposed withholding tax and decided to shut all their markets on August 1 (Saturday) in protest. Talking to this scribe, the Federation central President Malik Sohni termed the federal government new tax of 0.3 per cent on bank transaction as anti-traders and against the masses. He said that the government instead of giving security and facilities to traders community imposing unjustifiable taxes, which is not acceptable to them at any cost.
Malik Sohni asked the federal government to revise its anti-traders and anti-masses policies and end this unjustifiable tax forthwith if it wants to keep trading environment pleasant. He also urged the government to abolish other taxes too imposed on traders' community, aimed to play their role in stabilising economic activities in the country.
The Federation president also said that government has already been collecting billions of rupees from agricultural products markets every year, whereas no developmental work was initiated for the traders' community. He urged the government to shun anti-traders policies and extend relief to the trading and business community. The Federation president also announced to remain closed all fruits and vegetable markets, food markets and agriculture products markets on August 1, in protest across the country. He also warned if the government didn't consider their demand to abolish the new tax then they would keep continue their protest.
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