tax is generated by consumption of goods not by collecting revenues at port. Now check oil consumption, electricity, cement etc Anything you will pick up 70% of share will be from Punjab and 30% from rest of Pakistan.
Retail hardly pay any tax including Karachi shops. Total retail shop tax collection is Rs200b, 46% from Karachi. Even Rs200b is hardly 2% of over all revenue collection.
Plus income tax is based on where company is registered. See per capita income tax of Islamabad, 8-10 times more then Lahore and Karachi. While GDP of Islamabad is like 10 times less.
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Dude, the problem I see it is the methodology you are opting to use.
It is a fact that Karachi collects the majority of tax revenue in the whole country. Okay, you say, that’s true but that is because it is a port city and this is true for all countries. And just a conduit of trade that occurs in the rest of the country.
I will say yes that’s true, but other countries for that precise reason pay a lot attention to their port cities and invest in their port cities. Has Karachi had that sort of attention? Before or after the 18th amendment? No.
Okay you might say but that’s not evidence that the rest of the country is not paying taxes and the Karachites are bank rolling the rest of us. But then we look at income tax- you give an outlier of Islamabad which has to be an outlier because a significant population there work for the govt jobs and I suspect their income taxes are withheld before the check (maybe someone working in a govt job can clarify how it works). Excluding Islamabad, Karachi pays more income tax (that is not corporate tax).
Okay you say that might just be more corporate level type jobs in Karachi which have better and more stringent HR that do some sort of tax with-holding. That might also be true.
But even on taxes that say markets pay, one or two single market bazaar in Karachi pays more taxes than all the markets in Lahore and Islamabad combined. Granted it’s a measly 200 bn rupees as you point out. But Karachi just has less tax noncompliance than others (although it’s still very high).
I don’t know, we, Karachites, might just be bitching here. We may be wrong about this. I read in a study that Karachi collects 70% of taxes in the country and generates activity for 20% in itself. Even 20% is a lot given the gross neglect. Can’t find the study right now.
That guy is not Afghani, he is Muhajir
KPK has no right to complain about drone strikes after being the primary source of terrorism and providing a safehaven for terror groups like TTP in the past, due to personal sympathies thereby keeping the country bogged down.
Pakistan is Muhajiristan.
Punjab has been screwed over as alleged by my post below:
Dude in any country, it’s the minorities who worry about genocide, not the majority. Especially if the majority are relatively privileged. In what sense is Pakistan, Muhajiristan? Have you ever visited Karachi?