{"id":52490,"date":"2019-05-31T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52490"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T06:14:35","slug":"pm-approves-proposal-carbon-emissions-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-approves-proposal-carbon-emissions-tax.html","title":{"rendered":"PM approves proposal for carbon emissions tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has given approval for a proposal to charge a carbon emissions tax worth PKR 1 per litre on petrol and diesel sold in Punjab, a news source reported. The proposal is a step towards controlling environmental pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/budgetary-proposals-approved-for-environmental-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Budgetary proposals approved for environmental projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Punjab Excise and Taxation Department had forwarded the said proposal to Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab government also has plans to carry out new surveys for estimating property taxes in the province in August 2019. The excise department has suggested to increase tax exemptions for women on residential properties, along with exemptions for orphans till age 25. Punjab\u2019s resource mobilisation committee has agreed to these suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/clean-green-campaign-to-get-1-of-psdp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clean &amp; Green campaign to get 1% of PSDP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The revenue levied from the carbon emissions tax will be invested in green initiatives. It is expected that this tax would easily generate between PKR 8 billion and PKR 10 billion annually. The implementation of the carbon emissions tax awaits a final approval from the Punjab government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has given approval for a proposal to charge a carbon emissions tax worth PKR 1 per litre on petrol and diesel sold in Punjab, a news source reported. The proposal is a step towards controlling environmental pollution. Read:\u00a0Budgetary proposals approved for environmental projects The Punjab Excise and Taxation Department had forwarded the said proposal to Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar. The Punjab government also has plans to carry out new surveys for estimating property taxes in the province in August 2019. The excise department has suggested to increase tax exemptions for women on residential properties, along with exemptions for orphans till age 25. Punjab\u2019s resource mobilisation committee has agreed to these suggestions. Read:\u00a0Clean &amp; Green campaign to get 1% of PSDP The revenue levied from the carbon emissions tax will be invested in green initiatives. It is expected that this tax would easily generate between PKR 8 billion and PKR 10 billion annually. The implementation of the carbon emissions tax awaits a final approval from the Punjab government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":49196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[11806],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-details-on-pm-approves-proposal-for-carbon-emissions-tax","9":"cat-15015-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM approves proposal for carbon emissions tax - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has given approval for a proposal to charge a carbon emissions tax worth PKR 1 per litre on petrol and diesel sold\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-approves-proposal-carbon-emissions-tax.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM approves proposal for carbon emissions tax - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has given approval for a proposal to charge a carbon emissions tax worth PKR 1 per litre on petrol and diesel sold\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-approves-proposal-carbon-emissions-tax.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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