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APTMA: GIDC reduced for entire industry in Pakistan

10 Sep '12
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Spokesman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has said that the government has reduced Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) for the whole industry and not only APTMA to ensure sustainability and compatibility on domestic and global fronts.

According to him, the government had introduced Gas Infrastructure Development Act in 2011 with a Cess of Rs13/MMBTU, which was increased to Rs100/MMBTU in the Finance Bill of 2012-13. The industry at large opposed the arrangement and demanded the government of reducing it to Rs50/MMBTU. The government agreed to the demand and reduced it accordingly as per the industry demand. 
 
He said APTMA was never the only association asking for reduction in GIDC and there is no reality to the propaganda that APTMA has pursued the government in reducing GIDC. He said the government would be able to collect Rs14 billion per annum against Rs2 billion per annum earlier from industry for the development of gas supply infrastructure to augment energy supply.
 
He has expressed the hope that GIDC rationalization would reduce the cost of doing business of industry and there would be no loss to the exchequer as such due to the fact that this Cess is being collected for a particular purpose of developing gas supply infrastructure to import gas under TAPI and IPI projects besides importing LNG by the government. He said the objective of this arrangement is to overcome energy shortage and revival of impaired capacities of industry in the country.
 
Also, he has clarified that the government was collecting Rs149/MMBTU with an option of collecting GIDC from transport sector up to Rs300/MMBTU. So far as unfound gas (UFG) in concerned, this phenomenon has shot up after unchecked expansion of gas supply to the transport sector, he added.
 
He said the textile industry is the backbone of Pakistan economy, contributing as biggest job provider and 60% share in country’s exports besides developing backward linkages in the agriculture sector. He said APTMA has been voicing the concerns of whole industry in every meeting on the subject and therefore government has extended it to the whole industry.
 
He said it is also a fact that textile industry has been the prime victim of energy crisis, as energy is 40% of the conversion cost therefore APTMA has to lead from the front in order to protect production, employment and exports of the country.

All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA)

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