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| | 'Collection' emerges as criterion: GST distribution -DAWN - Business; 21 May, 2004 |
 | | This principle of making tax collection as the basis should also be applied in case of disbursement of provincial sales tax on the services also. |
 | | The services identified for generation of provincial sales tax are stock exchange operations, a host of financial services of banks, modarabas, leasing, trade transactions, medical practitioners, pharmacists, chartered accountants, lawyers, tax practitioners, educational institutions charging more than Rs1,500 per month fees, pathological laboratories, specialised diagnostic centres, interior decorators, real estate property dealers, jewellers. |
 | | In 1999, the octroi and zila tax was abolished and federal government increased GST rate from 12.5 per cent to 15 per cent with a firm promise that 2.5 per cent GST would be given to the provinces to compensate for octroi and zila tax on the basis of actual collection. |
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