{"id":21173,"date":"2025-03-24T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=21173"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:38:33","slug":"doctors-salaries-in-kp-to-face-professional-tax-deductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/24\/doctors-salaries-in-kp-to-face-professional-tax-deductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors&#8217; salaries in KP to face professional tax deductions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Excise and Taxation Department has issued a letter to the Health Department, instructing hospitals to deduct professional tax from doctors&#8217; salaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the letter, the tax deduction will be made as per the prescribed rates, and hospitals have also been directed to recover outstanding tax dues from doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The directive follows a 2021 ruling by the Peshawar High Court (PHC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Excise and Taxation Department has issued a letter to the Health Department, instructing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doctors&#039; 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