ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday maintained that the government should have announced a 15 percent pay raise in the federal budget 2015-16.
Addressing a post-budget press conference on Saturday at his residence in Islamabad, the PTI chairman said that there should be at least 15 percent rise in salaries of government employees. “Secretary level officials have been given a 100 percent raise while the lower grade employees have got only 7.5 percent rise,” Khan lamented.
The government must bring the rich class into tax next, Imran Khan said, adding that out of total 180 million people only 800, 000 people pay taxes.
“The government should impose tax on capital gains for property and real estate business. Those who don’t pay income tax should be made to pay property tax,” he suggested.
“It is unfair that someone like me who is from the privileged class has to pay the same amount of GST as of a poor man,” the PTI chief said, adding that the increase in GST would further burden the poor class.
“The PMLN’s budget will only benefit the tiny rich elite of Pakistan. There’s nothing in it for the poor class.”
He demanded from the government to reduce the price of diesel by Rs18 to uplift farmers.
