Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet Friday approved exemptions from withholding tax beyond 6% of E&M contract price, and from tax/duties on import of equipment to be installed for the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project.
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The summary to this effect was sent to ECC by the Planning , Development and Reform Division.
The meeting of the ECC was chaired by the Federal Minister for Finance Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar here.
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The ECC also decided that a similar dispensation would also be extended to the other rail based mass transit projects in Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta at an appropriate time.