{"id":29329,"date":"2017-11-06T20:56:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29329"},"modified":"2017-11-06T20:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:56:59","slug":"senate-body-recommends-tax-exemption-for-low-budget-mobile-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29329","title":{"rendered":"Senate body recommends tax exemption for low-budget mobile users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\"><strong>Islamabad, Nov. 6 (TNS):<\/strong> It may be good news for common man facing heavy taxation on cellular services as the Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology has recommended tax exemption for cell phone users\u00a0with only Rs500 or less account balance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">The committee met with Senator Shahi Syed in the chair on Monday and directed the Federal Board of Revenue to submit details of the\u00a0revenue generated through taxes imposed on the users of cellular services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">The members of the committee were informed that there were around 135 million cell phone users in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">The meeting also discussed the payment of pensions to the retired employees of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">The\u00a0Pakistan Telecommunication Employees Trust managing director told the committee that a court had sought details of retired employees and their outstanding dues from the PTCL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">He said the court had ordered the company to pay the pensions, and the pensioners were receiving them as well. However, he added that the pensions had\u00a0not been increased by\u00a020% as was decided.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov. 6 (TNS): It may be good news for common man facing heavy taxation on cellular services as the Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology has recommended tax exemption for cell phone users\u00a0with only Rs500 or less account balance. The committee met with Senator Shahi Syed in the chair on Monday and directed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29331,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29329\/revisions\/29331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}