{"id":62251,"date":"2020-03-04T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62251"},"modified":"2020-03-04T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T09:47:48","slug":"punjab-approves-sales-tax-online-cab-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-approves-sales-tax-online-cab-fares.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab cabinet body approves sales tax for online cab fares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Standing Committee of the Punjab Cabinet on Legislative Business on Tuesday provided its approval to the proposed 4% provincial sales tax on the fares of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"online ride-hailing services (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-dept-amends-motor-vehicles-rules-register-private-transport-companies.html\" target=\"_blank\">online ride-hailing services<\/a> operating within the province, according to news sources. To facilitate this measure, fares for raid hailing apps such as Uber, Careem, and Airlift are expected to undergo an increase on account of this new tax implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-cabinet-approves-state-land-transfer-nphp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab approves state land transfer for NPHP development; regulations for private cab services (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab approves state land transfer for NPHP development; regulations for private cab services<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nauthorities concerned announced this decision during the 22nd meeting of the\ncabinet committee; held under the chairmanship of Punjab Minister for Law,\nParliamentary Affairs and Social Welfare Raja Basharat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further,\nthe committee sanctioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Development of the University of Child Health at the Children\u2019s Hospital in Lahore<\/li><li>Draft of the Punjab Special Education Policy 2019<\/li><li>Amendments to the Act of Technical Universities, for the Department of Trade and Industries<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/online-transport-system-for-lahore-cards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Online transport system for Lahore on cards (opens in a new tab)\">Online transport system for Lahore on cards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Constitution of the executive committee of the Punjab Heritage Foundation<\/li><li>Development of the Universities of Bhakkar, Layyah<\/li><li>Re-labelling of the public degree, inter and commerce colleges as associate colleges<\/li><li>Forwarding the case of 211 technical union secretaries to the Punjab Absorption Committee for absorption as sub-engineers<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Standing Committee of the Punjab Cabinet on Legislative Business on Tuesday provided its approval to the proposed 4% provincial sales tax on the fares of online ride-hailing services operating within the province, according to news sources. To facilitate this measure, fares for raid hailing apps such as Uber, Careem, and Airlift are expected to undergo an increase on account of this new tax implementation. Read: Punjab approves state land transfer for NPHP development; regulations for private cab services The authorities concerned announced this decision during the 22nd meeting of the cabinet committee; held under the chairmanship of Punjab Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Social Welfare Raja Basharat. Further, the committee sanctioned: Development of the University of Child Health at the Children\u2019s Hospital in Lahore Draft of the Punjab Special Education Policy 2019 Amendments to the Act of Technical Universities, for the Department of Trade and Industries Read: Online transport system for Lahore on cards Constitution of the executive committee of the Punjab Heritage Foundation Development of the Universities of Bhakkar, Layyah Re-labelling of the public degree, inter and commerce colleges as associate colleges Forwarding the case of 211 technical union secretaries to the Punjab Absorption Committee for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[20013,21811,21813,21812],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-punjab-cabinet","9":"tag-punjab-cabinet-body-approves-sales-tax-for-online-cab-fares","10":"tag-raja-basharat","11":"tag-ride-hailing-apps","12":"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>Punjab approves sales tax for online cab fares - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Standing Committee of Punjab Cabinet on Legislative Business approved 4% provincial sales tax on the fares of online ride-hailing services\" \/>\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\/punjab-approves-sales-tax-online-cab-fares.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab approves sales tax for online cab fares - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Standing Committee of Punjab Cabinet on Legislative Business approved 4% provincial sales tax on the fares of online ride-hailing services\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-approves-sales-tax-online-cab-fares.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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