Common man will face a burden of Rs2bn after mini budget
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid on Thursday said the mini-budget to be tabled in the National Assembly today would lay a burden of Rs2 billion only on the common man.
Talking to the media after the meeting of the parliamentary members in Islamabad, Rashid claimed that the mini-budget would impose 17 per cent GST on Pakistanis only if passed.
He said Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin had told him that the mini-budget was not worth Rs350billion, but just Rs72billion
“Out of which, the burden which would be laid on the common man would be of Rs2billion only.”
According to Rashid, all the allied parties of Pakistan Tekreek-e-Insaf (PTI) backed the government regarding the mini-budget.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”ur” dir=”rtl”>اسلام آباد :30 دسمبر <br> فنانس بل کے حوالے سے پالیمنٹ ہاؤس میں میڈیا سے بات چیت.<a href=”https://t.co/Tc0IG0n2DJ”>https://t.co/Tc0IG0n2DJ</a><a href=”https://twitter.com/GovtofPakistan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@GovtofPakistan</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/PTVNewsOfficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@PTVNewsOfficial</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/NAofPakistan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@NAofPakistan</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/SenatePakistan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@SenatePakistan</a> <a href=”https://t.co/UXpjUspUJe”>pic.twitter.com/UXpjUspUJe</a></p>— Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (@ShkhRasheed) <a href=”https://twitter.com/ShkhRasheed/status/1476500850923216899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>December 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
