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LPG Association demands govt reduce taxes on local made LPG
LAHORE: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) should reduce taxes on local made LPG, enabling the government to reduce prices...
Govt decides to impose sales tax on retailers in financial year 2015-16
LAHORE: The government has decided to impose sales tax on retailers in coming Financial Year (FY) 2015-16. At least 90...
Punjab Revenue Authority seals two beauty salons for sales tax evasion
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has sealed Seemi and Sapna beauty Parlors in Johor Town Lahore owing to sales...
Inspector Customs Preventive Lahore Javaid Iqbal transferred to Faisalabad
LAHORE: The Federal Board of Revenue has transferred Inspector Model Customs Collector of Preventive Lahore Javaid Iqbal and posted to...
FBR Departmental Promotion Committee meeting to commence this week
KARACHI: Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is going to hold its annual meeting in the...
Greece makes €200m Loan Payment to IMF
ATHENS: While Greek debt talks continue and the European Central Bank’s governing council discusses whether to give Greek banks emergency...
Finance minister reaches Dubai to attend IMF meeting
DUBAI: Finance Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar arrived in Dubai from Baku after attending the 48th annual meeting of ADB...
Transparency International asks NAB to take notice of ‘faults’ in Ayyan case
LAHORE: The Transparency International Pakistan has urged the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to take notice of the ‘deliberate 'faults’ in...
KSE 100-index up 305.64 pts or 0.91% on foreign buying
KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark 100-index gained 305.64 points or 0.91 percent to reach 33839.28 points and volume of 155,433,960...
Chinese Customs seizes 730 cigars, 432 bottles of wine, 22 cellfones worth RMB 400,000
SHANGHAI: officers of Zhakou Customs House (affiliated to Gongbei Customs District) stopped an inward car with dual license plates at...
China Customs confiscates ivory pen containers worth RMB 200,000
BEIJING: Officers of Wenzhou Customs House (affiliated to Hangzhou Customs District) said they had seized in succession 17 ivory products...
China’s Kunminh Customs seizes 27kg Ice, clutches smuggler
BEIJING: Kunming Customs seized 27 kilograms of Ice and 1 vehicle used for the trafficking and nabbed one smuggler, Kunming...
Chinese Customs seized 72,000 Ephedrine pills
BEIJING: Officers of Shenzhen Customs District said they had seized 72,000 Ephedrine pills which were illegally brought in by 11...
FIA seizes huge quantity of Indian contraband drugs during raid, 2 FIRs registered
KARACHI: The Deputy Director of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Corporate Crime Cell (CCC) Kamran Attaullah in a press conference revealed...
Ayyan Ali uses VIP lounge for foreign visits
ISLAMABAD: Supermodel Ayyan Ali used to sit in the VIP lounge with reference of very renowned personalities for money laundering....
FBR Chairman Bajwa leaves for Dubai to take part in policy-level talks with IMF
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Tariq Bajwa has left for Dubai to take part in the policy-level talks...
Chinese consortium buys US-based OmniVision for $1.9b
BEIJING: A China-based consortium, comprising semiconductor industry investors, has agreed to acquire US-based OmniVision Technologies Inc, iPhone’s sensor supplier, for...
New home sales in China shrink 13.2%
SHANGHAI: Weekly sales of new homes in Shanghai fell last week but a robust buying momentum helped them stay above...
China P2P loans swell by 2.7 fold to $8.9b in April
BEIJING: China’s peer-to-peer lending in April surged 2.7-fold from a year earlier to a record 55.1 billion yuan (US$8.9 billion),...
Chinese nabbed in Veitnam for smuggling 3kg drugs
BEIJING: Vietnamese border guards have commenced criminal proceedings against a Chinese national who was caught illegally bringing about 3kg of...
