Islamabad: The government has imposed 3.5 percent tax on the wheat purchased by Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Service Corporation (PASSCO) if the seller is not grower.
The tax policy regarding wheat purchase by Passco created some confusion not only among buyer and sellers of wheat but also among the officials of the federal as well as provincial food and agriculture departments, sources said on Wednesday.
The wheat commissioner in Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Islamabad was unaware about any tax in this connection when he was contacted by Online. Similarly, officials in the provincial food and agriculture departments in Sindh and Punjab were also confused in this connection when they were contacted. Some of them said, “yes some tax was imposed but we are not clear of the ratio or a policy in this connection”, while other were absolutely unaware of any tax.
The farmers were again and again asking officials in food and agriculture in this connection but they were returned with vague answers in this connection, said Allah Bux, a farmers from Hyderabad.
When the concerned section officer Abduslam in Minfa was contacted, he confirmed that 3.5 percent tax will be paid by the seller if he is a middle man. He said that the policy was clarified in letter no 4/2011 dated April 2 that if the seller is a farmer or grower then no tax would be imposed.
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