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Federal Minister for Information Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Friday that it was strange that the Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif supported the draft bill for reformation of General Sales Tax but his party in the National Assembly was opposing it. He was speaking to media persons during his visit to photo exhibition on the life of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto at Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). He said that the government has held consultations with the provincial governments, and the impression given by some elements that the bill was being bulldozed was not correct. The bill tabled in National Assembly would go to the concerned standing committees and after thorough discussions there it will be brought in the House for voting and only after passage from the Parliament it will be implemented, Kaira added. He clarified that after approval of RGST bill, a unified ratio of 15 percent GST will be imposed on all items as against to the present ratio of 15 percent to 25 percent providing relief to the common man. The Minister said that on the one hand critics of the government say that it has taken no steps to reform the taxation system, but when we take steps in this regard, our efforts are hindered.
