{"id":63930,"date":"2020-04-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63930"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:04:43","slug":"scci-requests-three-month-waiver-commercial-utility-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/scci-requests-three-month-waiver-commercial-utility-bills.html","title":{"rendered":"SCCI requests three-month waiver on commercial utility bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peshawar: The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry (SCCI) on Thursday requested a three-month waiver on commercial utility bills, a news source reported. To this effect, SCCI President Maqsood Anwar Pervaiz has requested the government to waive off the electricity and gas bills for commercial and industrial consumers for the stated period in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lcci-demands-govt-postpone-cnic-condition-waive-off-electricity-bills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"LCCI demands govt to postpone CNIC condition, waive off electricity bills (opens in a new tab)\">LCCI demands govt to postpone CNIC condition, waive off electricity bills<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SCCI president made these requests during a video\nmeeting with industrialists, traders, and shopkeepers. He appreciated the fact that\nthe government had already deferred the utility bills of domestic consumers for\nthe same three-month period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, Pervaiz highlighted that due to the ongoing, countrywide COVID-19 lockdown, the business community was facing significant financial challenges. In the interest of providing relief, he appealed to Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, Federal Minister for Water &amp; Power Omar Ayub Khan, and senior officials of the Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) to offer them a commercial utility bills waiver sought for the coming period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sngpl-ssgc-propose-differing-gas-price-hike-rates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SNGPL, SSGC propose differing gas price-hike rates (opens in a new tab)\">SNGPL, SSGC propose differing gas price-hike rates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the SCCI president also requested the\ngovernment to exempt small traders from federal and provincial taxes; stating\nthat the government should bolster them with interest-free loans amid the\ncontinuing pandemic situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry (SCCI) on Thursday requested a three-month waiver on commercial utility bills, a news source reported. To this effect, SCCI President Maqsood Anwar Pervaiz has requested the government to waive off the electricity and gas bills for commercial and industrial consumers for the stated period in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read: LCCI demands govt to postpone CNIC condition, waive off electricity bills The SCCI president made these requests during a video meeting with industrialists, traders, and shopkeepers. He appreciated the fact that the government had already deferred the utility bills of domestic consumers for the same three-month period. Further, Pervaiz highlighted that due to the ongoing, countrywide COVID-19 lockdown, the business community was facing significant financial challenges. In the interest of providing relief, he appealed to Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, Federal Minister for Water &amp; Power Omar Ayub Khan, and senior officials of the Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) to offer them a commercial utility bills waiver sought for the coming period. Read: SNGPL, SSGC propose differing gas price-hike rates Additionally, the SCCI president also requested the government to exempt small traders from federal and provincial taxes; stating that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":63935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012],"tags":[25895],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"tag-details-on-scci-requests-three-month-waiver-on-commercial-utility-bills","9":"cat-15012-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SCCI requests three-month waiver on commercial utility bills - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce &amp; 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