{"id":549448,"date":"2026-06-04T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=549448"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:52:29","slug":"lhc-orders-for-stopping-collection-of-pst-from-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/lhc-orders-for-stopping-collection-of-pst-from-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"LHC orders for stopping collection of PST from lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A division bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) while restraining from collecting Professional Sales Tax (PST) from lawyers has issued stay order. The bench was headed by Justice Abid Aziz. The court while issuing notice to government of Punjab and Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has sought reply. ONLINE<br \/>\nThe petitioner Babar Murtaza president Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) took the plea recovering PST from lawyers is illegal. Government funds are not provided to lawyers bars while all the expenses of bar are paid out of our own pockets.<br \/>\nThe petitioner requested the court to declare recovery of PST by PRA null and void.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A division bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) while restraining from collecting Professional Sales Tax (PST) from lawyers has issued stay order. The bench was headed by Justice Abid Aziz. The court while issuing notice to government of Punjab and Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has sought reply. ONLINE The petitioner Babar Murtaza president Lahore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-national"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LHC orders for stopping collection of PST from lawyers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/lhc-orders-for-stopping-collection-of-pst-from-lawyers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LHC orders for stopping collection of PST from lawyers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAHORE: A division bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) while restraining from collecting Professional Sales Tax (PST) from lawyers has issued stay order. 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