Overview
- Provincial lawmakers approved the presentation of delayed agricultural income tax notifications and excused the lapse, which restored their legal effect.
- Members also backed the Speaker’s stance that tax rates cannot be changed by executive order and must be brought to the House during the budget session.
- Before the vote, Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan had ruled the notifications unlawful and ordered tax authorities to halt assessments, demands, and recoveries under the revised rates.
- The disputed measures were issued on March 5, 2025, with a later move to apply them from July 1, 2025, but they were not laid before the Assembly as Section 11(2) of the 1997 law requires.
- Assembly committees were tasked to identify responsibility and gauge the hit to taxpayers and revenue, a review that could shape refunds, enforcement steps, and tighter checks on delegated tax powers.