{"id":63389,"date":"2020-03-30T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63389"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:10:34","slug":"covid-19-punjab-waives-pkr-18-bn-taxes-special-packages-expected-daily-wagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-punjab-waives-pkr-18-bn-taxes-special-packages-expected-daily-wagers.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Punjab waives off PKR 18 bn taxes, special packages expected for daily wagers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Punjab government recently waived off provincial taxes worth PKR 18 billion, and a special package is in the making for daily wagers to support them through the coronavirus outbreak, a news source reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/dha-lahore-shuts-down-main-office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"COVID-19 pandemic: DHA Lahore shuts down main office (opens in a new tab)\">COVID-19 pandemic: DHA Lahore shuts down main office<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar chaired a meeting at his office and said that the government would disburse PKR 4,000 per family to about 2.5 million families who had been affected by the coronavirus lockdown. He added that the government had allocated PKR 10 billion to compensate the affected households in this regard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ctp-shares-plan-improve-traffic-flow-in-lahore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" CTP shares plan to improve traffic flow in Lahore (opens in a new tab)\"> CTP shares plan to improve traffic flow in Lahore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buzdar acknowledged the fact that the labour class and daily wagers had been affected the worst due the countrywide lockdown, and assured that these communities would be supported by the government. He further revealed that the government would also be offering an additional one-month salary to doctors and paramedics dealing with coronavirus patients as a recognition of their services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/college-road-renamed-mm-alam-extension-road.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"College Road, Lahore to be renamed to \u2018M.M Alam Extension Road\u2019 (opens in a new tab)\">College Road, Lahore to be renamed to \u2018M.M Alam Extension Road\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Buzdar stated that the government had decided that 3,100 prisoners with 90-days sentences would be released immediately; except for those individuals who had committed serious crimes. He added that Personal Protection equipment (PPEs) had also been made available for the medical staff looking after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-pak-mulls-inviting-donations-from-overseas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"novel coronavirus (opens in a new tab)\">novel coronavirus<\/a> patients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government recently waived off provincial taxes worth PKR 18 billion, and a special package is in the making for daily wagers to support them through the coronavirus outbreak, a news source reported. Read: COVID-19 pandemic: DHA Lahore shuts down main office As per the publication, Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar chaired a meeting at his office and said that the government would disburse PKR 4,000 per family to about 2.5 million families who had been affected by the coronavirus lockdown. He added that the government had allocated PKR 10 billion to compensate the affected households in this regard. Read: CTP shares plan to improve traffic flow in Lahore Buzdar acknowledged the fact that the labour class and daily wagers had been affected the worst due the countrywide lockdown, and assured that these communities would be supported by the government. He further revealed that the government would also be offering an additional one-month salary to doctors and paramedics dealing with coronavirus patients as a recognition of their services. Read: College Road, Lahore to be renamed to \u2018M.M Alam Extension Road\u2019 Additionally, Buzdar stated that the government had decided that 3,100 prisoners with 90-days sentences would be released immediately;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":61600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015,15020],"tags":[21927,24585,24586],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"category-social-developments","9":"tag-chief-minister-cm-usman-buzdar","10":"tag-punjab-waives-off-pkr-18-bn-taxes","11":"tag-special-packages-expected-for-daily-wagers","12":"cat-15015-id","13":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19: Punjab waives off PKR 18 bn taxes - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government recently waived off provincial taxes worth PKR 18 billion, and a special package is in the making for daily wagers\" \/>\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\/covid-19-punjab-waives-pkr-18-bn-taxes-special-packages-expected-daily-wagers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: Punjab waives off PKR 18 bn taxes - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government recently waived off provincial taxes worth PKR 18 billion, and a special package is in the making for daily wagers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-punjab-waives-pkr-18-bn-taxes-special-packages-expected-daily-wagers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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