Self-reliance can be achieved by promoting tax culture: minister

Punjab Finance Minister Hashim Jawan Bakht presided over a meeting of resource mobilization committee here on Friday and discussed different proposals to enhance the provincial resources. On the occasion, the Minister said that taxation is a gateway to development and the goal of economics self-reliance can be achieved by promoting tax culture. He said national resources will be spent on public welfare and the promotion of health and education sectors, adding that funds will also be utilized to improve the standard of basic facilities by enhancing the resources.
"The PTI government considers national resources as a public trust and increase in resources is the need of the time so that improvements could be brought through development schemes," he added. Provincial ministers Malik Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan Khichi, Hafiz Mumtaz Ahmed, Chief Secretary, SMBR, secretaries of finance, excise and taxation, transport, housing departments, PRA officials and others attended the meeting.