There is a strong view prevailing among the economic experts of Sindh that the much trumpeted NFC Award announced in 2009 with high hopes attached to it by the people of Sindh, seems to have proved an exercise in futility.
A major achievement claimed by the PPP government was the acceptance of the exclusive right of the provinces to collect sales taxon services , as per 7th NFC Award. However, despite the passage of about 18 months since the announcement of the NFC Award and adoption of six months since the passage of the Sindh budget for the current financial year the progress on this ‘achievement’ has remained zero.
But why? Inner circles of Sindh government are of the view that the hurdles have been created very tactfully, one after the other, by “different quarters”- belonging to federal as well as the provincial government, in the way of the implementation of this specific part of 7th NFC Award.
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