Governor Urges PM to Scrap Federal Taxes in Merged Districts, PATA

Governor urges PM to scrap federal taxes in merged districts, PATA

PESHAWAR - Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi has urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to abolish fed­eral taxes in the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA), arguing that the levies under­mine recent provincial tax relief for the region.

KP Governor Seeks Federal Tax Relief For Ex-Fata, Malakand

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Thursday requested Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to abolish federal taxes in the erstwhile tribal areas and Malakand division. In a letter to the prime minister, Kundi stated that under Article 247 of the Constitution, as it stood before the 25th Constitutional Amend­ment, and subsequent legal commitments made at the time of the merger, the erstwhile tribal areas and merged districts we…