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Lahore Chamber Of Commerce And Industry (LCCI) For Result-oriented Budget To End Economic Miseries
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published April 16, 2018 | 06:22 PM
Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Monday emphasized the need for a result-oriented federal budget aimed at addressing the miseries of trade, industry and economy.
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Apr, 2018 ) :Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Monday emphasized the need for a result-oriented federal budget aimed at addressing the miseries of trade, industry and economy.
LCCI President Malik Tahir Javaid stated here that federal budget was the most important document of any country as it set economic directions the entire year. "It is important that budget for financial year 2018-19 should have doable suggestions of business community in its fold," he added.
Pakistan was energy and water starved country and needed to make substantial investment for development of power sector infrastructure that was capable of meeting the growing needs of the economy; therefore, the government should ensure substantial amount of public investment first into generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure to bridge demand and supply gap, he suggested.
Malik Tahir said that to tackle circular debt on sustainable basis - ultimately Pakistan would have to ensure that the electricity power sector was efficient and competitive and this would require consistent structural and institutional reforms.
In particular, removing subsidies and adherence to full cost recovery would have to be ensured, while tariffs should fully reflect normal profits. The sector's huge debt overhang also needed to be eliminated on sustainable basis.
Stressing the importance of Kalabagh Dam, he said the project would give one million-acre-feet of water thus ensuring fiscal benefit of US$2 billions annually to the economy, and called for allocating funds for this vital project in the upcoming budget.
He also called for making tax collection mechanism more economically neutral, taxpayer-friendly, equitable, facilitative and supportive to generate healthy business activities. "Taxation is of course important source of revenue collection but tax policies must be based on the best international practices and universally accepted canons of taxation," he opined.
Moreover, he added, the taxes should be collected quarterly instead of every month and for that matter, all para-tariffs must be merged into the main tariffs. Similarly, there should be electronic communication between taxpayers and tax departments.
About China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), he said that projects under it would stimulate local economy by increasing the demand for locally manufactured goods and such increase in demand would not only allow full utilisation of existing manufacturing capacity but also encourage manufacturers to enhance their capacity.
Lahore Chamber president urged the government to take steps to control smuggling at the borders and Frontier Corps deployed there should be equipped with state of the art technology and made them more vigilant enabling them to play their role more effectively in controlling the smuggling.
He suggested that duties on smuggle-pron goods should be reduced as it had been practiced successfully in many other countries. He mentioned that Pakistan needed a long-term integrated export strategy for which Federal Commerce Minister had taken encouraging steps recently to enhance the country's exports.
He said that removal of business climate challenges could help considerably in this regard.
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