Pakistan’s major tobacco industry caused a whopping loss of Rs153 billion to the national exchequer from 2016 to 2019 as it was levied low tax rate and allowed price adjustment of their most sold brands. Read more...
Speakers at a media awareness session here on Wednesday said the higher taxes on tobacco products created a win-win situation as these resulted in increasing revenues and also improving public health due to reduction in tobacco consumption. Read more......
Waseem Saleem, Senior Economist at Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) said that the large fiscal imbalances in Pakistan require greater tax revenues. He added that the level of under-reporting of cigarette production in Pakistan has negative implications for government tax revenue. Read mo...
Islamabad : Tobacco use has a significant impact on the economic costs of a country, including the healthcare costs for treating tobacco related diseases and lost productivity of workforce. Read more......
Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC), the University of Karachi and the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct joint research studies on emerging issues related to economic and social development in Pakistan. Prof. Dr. Nooreen Mujahid, D...
Policy Brief by Tobacconomics: https://www.tobacconomics.org/research/cigarette-tax-scorecard-pakistan/...
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South Asian Regional Conference was held in Islamabad in April 2014 on theme of Women, Work and Poverty. The speakers were invited from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan and from within Pakistan. Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms was the Chief Gue...
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