Islamabad: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin Thursday reiterated his firm commitment for accelerated growth with the willing contribution from the business community – Radio Pakistan reported. Tarin was addressing a meeting at the Finance Division to discuss the new tariff for the Industry and export oriented sectors in the upcoming budget. Different options for concessional tariff were discussed in the meeting along with their implications on the subsidies, earnings, production and revenue generation. It was a general consensus that there is a need to generate a database which could establish the nexus between tariffs and progress of the export oriented sectors. It was also acknowledged in the meeting that the least cost units offered by the government have proved beneficial for the overall productive health of the economy especially export oriented sectors. Online
