Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturers Association (PVMA) on Sunday said the price of ghee and cooking oil will jump up to Rs 18 by July 01 due to the recent budget measures.
\nThe prices of different brands will jump from Rs 13 to Rs 18 depending on their respective retail prices in the market, said Chairman PVMA Abdul Waheed.
\nIn a statement issued here today, he said that local currency has lost Rs5 against US dollar while taxes to the tune of Rs18 per kg have been imposed in the budget therefore there will be no price reduction in the near future.
\nAbdul Waheed said that three percent additional sales tax has been imposed on the sale of ghee and cooking oil to unregistered buyers, whole-sellers, and retailers will pay 0.1 and 0.5 percent withholding tax while input sales tax adjustment up to 90 percent has been allowed.
\nHe demanded that input sales tax adjustment up to 100 percent should be allowed so that uniform tariff should be imposed on the whole industry, withholding tax on wholesale and retail purchase should be reversed.
\nAdditional sales tax should be abolished so that the prices of essential food items should remain stable as per the wishes of the government, he added.
\nAs per the speech of finance minister on the floor of the house taxes on the important food items have been abolished while the taxes on ghee and cooking oil industry have been kept intact which is a discriminatory decision, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturers Association (PVMA) on Sunday said the price of ghee and cooking oil will jump up to Rs 18 by July 01 due to the recent budget measures. The prices of different brands will jump from Rs 13 to Rs 18 depending on their respective retail prices in the market, said Chairman PVMA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"\n