LAHORE: The Punjab government has granted an incentive in stamp duty worth Rs40 billion during fiscal year 2021/2022 to encourage new investment in construction sector.
The provincial government announced incentives at the budget 2021/2022 that was presented on Monday.
The provincial minister announced tax concessions worth Rs50 billion during the fiscal year starting from July 01, 2021.
The minister said that an amount of Rs40 billion would be granted as tax incentive for construction sector during the next fiscal year. This concession would be available by maintaining stamp duty at one percent during the next fiscal year.
The provincial government decided to continue reduced rate of sales tax on services from 16 percent to five percent during the next fiscal year. The reduced rate of sales tax would be available on services included small hotels, guest houses, marriage halls, lawns, caterers, IT services, tour operators, jims, property dealers, rent a car service, cable tv oprators, treatment of textile and leather, commission agent of commodity operation, auditing accounting and tax consultancy services, photography and parking services etc.
In addition to mentioned above services, the provincial government decided to add more 10 services into reduced rate of tax regime. The government allowed reduced rate of sales tax on services from 16 percent to 5 percent to beauty parlor, fashion designers, home chefs, architects, laundries and drycleaners, supply of machinery, warehouse, dress designers and rental bulldozers etc.
The government decided to reduced sales tax rate from 19 percent to 16 percent on call centers.
