Chemists stage protest in Peshawar
July 1, 2021
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Chemist and Druggist Association, Peshawar chapter, on Wednesday staged protest against the government decision to impose new taxes in the budget.
Talking to The News, Chemist and Druggist Association president Fayyaz Dawar said that the government’s flawed policies had affected their businesses and now they were forced to close their businesses. He said that imposition of the new taxes would force them to close the businesses. He added that several retail businesses had already laid off their staff as the businesses had been in decline for the last couple of years.Fayyaz Dawar said that the government had asked distributors to collect taxes for them from the retailers, adding that the ultimate burden would fall on the general public as the retailers had been asked to get that tax from the public. He maintained that the retailers had made it clear to the distributors that if their bills contained the new taxes