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Pakistan Customs assures eliminating import barriers

KARACHI: Pakistan Customs has assured commercial importers of eliminating import barriers and improve facilitations through online system WeBOC. Dr. Mohammad Nadeem Memon, Collector of Customs, has assured to solve the problems facing the commercial importers at the import level and also provide all possible facilities. He was talking to a delegation called by Pakistan Chemicals […]

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New policy to eliminate tariff rate gap between commercial, industrial importers

ISLAMABAD: The gap of duty and tax rates between commercial importers and industrial importers will be eliminated under newly proposed tariff policy. The National Tariff Policy 2019-2024 has proposed following measures for enforcement: (i) These policy recommendations will be implemented in a period of five years starting from the Budget 2020-21; (ii) The tariff slabs […]

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Commercial importers destroying domestic industry: PBC

KARACHI: Pakistan Business Council (PBC) – the advisory forum of large corporate entities – has said that commercial importers are involved in massive under-invoicing and they are destroying the domestic industry. In its budget proposals for 2019/2020, the PBC recommended measures for documentation of economy to providing level playing field for domestic manufacturing. The PBC […]

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PBC resents restoration of final tax regime for commercial importers

The business association representing multinational companies (MNCs), the Pakistan Business Council (PBC), has strongly criticized the proposed restoration of the Final Tax Regime (FTR) for commercial importers, urging the government to reconsider its decision. The PBC’s concerns were voiced in response to the Finance Supplementary (Second Amendment) Bill of 2019.

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