Traders’ bodies go on strike tomorrow against ‘heavy’ taxes in KP

Traders’ bodies on Monday announced to observe a complete shutter down strike and take to the streets on Wednesday (Aug 28) to protest against the imposition of various taxes by the government. “The country is already witnessing historic inflation, and the government has further vitiated the fragile socioeconomic conditions by imposing more taxes,” Haroonur Rasheed, central president of one of the two major traders’ bodies of Mansehra, told a presser. Flanked by other members of the association, he said that their central leadership had taken up the issue of taxes with the federal government, urging it to withdraw them, but to no avail. “Traders are already paying different taxes, and the imposition of new levies would further push them against the wall,” Mr Rasheed said.