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Cut defence budget by Rs50b and I’ll withdraw GST increase: Dar

Pakistan Defence Budget is very low as compared to the enemies of Pakistan. Democrazy in Pakistan continues to target Pakistan Army (all three of them), Intel Agencies & Pakistan Defence Budget over & over again, first it was PPP & now it is PML-N's turns to harm Pakistan Defence.

In my personal opinion the situation which Pakistan is in, Pakistan Defence budget should be at least 40% & it should increase. You people just need to think about it that why it should be high it is because salaries, maintenance, over hauling, buying & upgrading military weapons, research for Military, specially war on terror & so on. 8% is nothing it is nothing, already PAF developmental program is suspended till 2025.

Pakistan Defence & Military Research should be kept out of all issues & Pakistan Defence & Research budget needs to be high, it should be at least equivalent or close to Indian Defence Budget. The decisions need to made according to the situation of Pakistan not according to personal interests. Already Pakistan Military Research is almost stopped because of Benazir Income Support Program which is horse crap at this time.

US & other countries who are enemies of Pakistan in the name of friends want the Govt. to cut Pakistan Defence Budget so that whatever work is taking place is slowed or stopped later.

All the politicians have already started targeting Pakistan Army & the Intel Agencies from day one.


Friend , You seems to be in a serious complex , this 15% of budget is causing so much problem for civilians then I just can't imagine that what damage can 40% of military budget can inflict to this nation . Its time to think seriously that can we continue this unmatched Arm race with India or Not? Its not just PPP or PML N , Its even Imran who pointed his fingers towards the military budget in his recent speech after taking Oath in Parliament.

Pakistan military's elite really now need to give more sacrifices for civilian cause at current situation . This GST sort of game have got its extreme mode in Mush Era , and seriously Its directly effecting all civilian projects and priorities . All issues are related with each other and should to be deal like a nation , Every National institution is responsible for the current situation . Specially the one is more responsible who sucked most Money in the name of National security.
 
what a douche bag he is... lanat !!

couldnt they tax the rich, no, it was the middle class and poor people that were tu suffer, thats what Dar (bhoki nangi ulad) is justifying !!

shameful creature !!
 
Yeah like they are actually doing a great job defending the nation..... The generals are fed by the US, the rest of the military is fed on the defence budget. They have absolutely no clue about how to defend the nation. Cut the budget by 50 billion asap.

A nation that is sandwiched between two hostile neighbors, with a separatist movement blowing in its largest province and wave upon wave of terrorism killings its citizen and military officers left, right and center is actually planning to cut its defense budget.

Bravo.

Is there any end to our stupidity as a nation?
 
A nation that is sandwiched between two hostile neighbors, with a separatist movement blowing in its largest province and wave upon wave of terrorism killings its citizen and military officers left, right and center is actually planning to cut its defense budget.

Bravo.

Is there any end to our stupidity as a nation?

Stupidity aside, it is more a matter of what we can afford as a nation, given our crumbling economy and rampant corruption. For how long can the military budget remain insulated from these problems?
 
Stupidity aside, it is more a matter of what we can afford as a nation, given our crumbling economy and rampant corruption. For how long can the military budget remain insulated from these problems?

Who says it is insulated? The military suffers as a result of the financial crunch just like the rest of us.
 
Who says it is insulated? The military suffers as a result of the financial crunch just like the rest of us.

Yes, the military suffers too, no doubt, but not as much as the general public. Traditionally, the nation has financed its defense needs as a matter of priority over social development.
 
Why don't you go tax the rich by 50bn?

Dawn to the rescue

A tax regime made by top officials for themselves - DAWN.COM

A tax regime made by top officials for themselves

KARACHI: Since the announcement of the federal budget for 2013-14, the salaried class finds itself in a state of shock — and for understandable reasons.

There are about 1.6 million salaried people who pay income tax — an abysmal figure in any case for a country with a population of over 180 million — and an overwhelming majority of them are going to take a direct hit as a result of the measures proposed (as opposed to the 3,500 salaried people claimed by the government).

If this were not bad enough, many view with suspicion the substantial decrease of the tax burden on those who fall in the middle of the tax slabs, which benefits, for example, top civil servants and other senior government functionaries. Have those who work out the details in the corridors of power found a way to give relief to themselves, some wonder.

Even beyond salaried persons, the general feeling is that the new taxation measures punish honest taxpayers by increasing the burden on them, reward tax evaders by not broadening the tax net and let free-loaders get away with not sharing the responsibility of sustaining the system.

In his budget speech last week, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar proposed the revision of income tax rates for salaried individuals and an increase in the existing tax slabs from six to 12 in the Finance Bill 2013. The exemption limit was, however, raised from Rs350,000 per annum to Rs400,000.

The envisaged measures will alter the current balance of tax incidence on different categories of salaried earners. The announcement implied that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) would be entrusted with more powers, including access to information on private bank-account holders.

“The proposed taxation measures perpetuate the regressive character of the taxation regime in Pakistan,” a senior executive commented in private. “The FBR, an institution known to be infested with inefficiency and corruption, has been entrusted with more powers that we fear will be abused to harass lawful citizens operating in the formal economy.”

Information gathered by Dawn indicates that in many cities, members of the executive class are pooling their resources and interacting with lawyers and accounting firms to carve out a collective response to what they consider a blatant violation of their right to be treated equitably with respect to sharing the tax burden.

“Instead of increasing the tax base, the Finance Bill has further increased the burden on the captive salaried taxpayers who contribute 11.3 per cent of the total withholding tax collected against 8.4pc on bank interest, 5.7pc on exports and 4.6pc on dividends,” said a senior executive of a private bank in a comment emailed to Dawn.

The tax liabilities of salaried persons are deducted at source. “We can neither hide our actual earnings as do businessmen, traders, landlords or professionals working privately, nor — like them — can we shift the impact of burden to others by increasing the prices of goods or services,” said an accountant who works for a law firm.

“Can someone explain how the fabulous earnings of the landed aristocracy, builders, businessmen, brokers, property tycoons and money-minting retailers are worth any less than the fixed pay-cheque I receive at the end of the month?” fumed a young professional who works for a multinational.

The small team of lawyers and accountants were consulted in an extensive exercise to assess the incidence of income tax under the new scheme and monitor the direction of the variations.

The findings are reproduced in the accompanying chart.

The exercise exposed several anomalies in the proposed tax regime. If implemented, the new taxation regime will hurt people earning Rs60,000 per month the most — even more than those who draw their monthly salaries in millions. The incidence of tax on a junior level employee earning Rs60,000 a month will be 34pc more than before, against 30pc on those earning Rs1.2 million and above.

For people earning between Rs175,000 and Rs400,000, the tax liability has actually fallen. Most senior bureaucrats, judges and generals fall in this band, leaving some wondering about accidents and others about creative thinking.

Meanwhile, about a million income tax payers, mostly from lower- and upper-most salaried class, will shoulder the brunt of the proposed measures.

Reports have been circulating for the past two years that the government has the details of three million tax-dodgers. Why the resource-starved government did not bring them into the net or force them to clear their liabilities was not clarified by the new economic team.

“We are watching closely the Supreme Court’s stance on sales tax to decide our future course of action,” a civil society activist coordinating between different groups of disenchanted salaried taxpayers told Dawn from Lahore.

“We are hoping to open a dialogue with the government’s economic team to rationalize the tax regime,” a senior analyst said. “In its current form, it violates not just the PML-N manifesto but also the Constitution of Pakistan that makes discrimination impermissible.”
 
Average Tax payers Pakistani says My tax bills have quadrupled (True)yet people living abroad or paying little to no taxes decide what the budget should be .And i am suppose to pay cause ?
 
At little more than 5 Billion USD, Pakistan's Military Budget is pathetic and bare bone. Any reduction would jeopardize Pakistan's National Security.

When country suffer everybody suffers and Army is not exception. Its time to audit all things so that every thing will be crystal clear. We all know that something is fishy in military’s non-development non-salary budgets. Its is time to check all the previous spending.
 
Gens k travel k liye luxury aircraft na lain tu is amount sey 10 times ziyada save ho sakta hai....
Fed and Proventials gov sub apney expenses 35-50% reduce kar rahey hain Army bhi eik saal cars or new camo na lay... kiya in sey hamari security khatrey main parh gaey gi ( jo waisey hi khatam ho chuki hai)
 
nawaz said he will not open any corruption case there was also a program done on this statement by Kashif Abbasi

they are not even willing to prosecute ppp or any other big fish and have business abroad

now they blame agencies for terror in Baluchistan taking easy way out .out of 7000 policemen 6000 are on vip protection duty see yesterdays program of Mr Malik and 1000 for Quetta people

and now they increased GST which they voted against when ppp tried it and again to save themselves from criticism they targeted army

what a load of crap apni dolat hi lay aoo tu mulk sanwar jaey

lo pangay idhar udhar say gher kar army aur isi ko patwari police ki tarhan bana cahatay ho

is ka injam b pata lag jaey ga
 
nawaz said he will not open any corruption case there was also a program done on this statement by Kashif Abbasi

they are not even willing to prosecute ppp or any other big fish and have business abroad

now they blame agencies for terror in Baluchistan taking easy way out .out of 7000 policemen 6000 are on vip protection duty see yesterdays program of Mr Malik and 1000 for Quetta people

and now they increased GST which they voted against when ppp tried it and again to save themselves from criticism they targeted army

what a load of crap apni dolat hi lay aoo tu mulk sanwar jaey

lo pangay idhar udhar say gher kar army aur isi ko patwari police ki tarhan bana cahatay ho

is ka injam b pata lag jaey ga

KPK main 2 MPA shaheed ho chukey hain...... Khud bhi kuch karna hai k just tanqeed... btw dosroon ko mulk main paisa laney waley just eik baat ka jawab dain k PTI ki election compaign main kitna paisa laga.... woh ajj mulk main laga hota or tu humain IMF k pass na jana parta or na hi koi GST lagta.....
 
KPK main 2 MPA shaheed ho chukey hain...... Khud bhi kuch karna hai k just tanqeed... btw dosroon ko mulk main paisa laney waley just eik baat ka jawab dain k PTI ki election compaign main kitna paisa laga.... woh ajj mulk main laga hota or tu humain IMF k pass na jana parta or na hi koi GST lagta.....

just read you post again and see what you have written

campain kay pesay say mulk nae chalta agar itna pesay pti kay pas hota tu kabi na harta samjhay

baki baat kal par mian
 

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