{"id":13651,"date":"2025-07-14T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:04:03","slug":"scci-backs-strike-against-tax-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13651","title":{"rendered":"SCCI backs strike against tax measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has thrown its full weight behind the countrywide shutter-down strike scheduled for July 19, in protest against what it terms anti-business provisions in the Finance Act 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference held at the Chamber House on Monday, SCCI President Fazal Moqeem Khan strongly criticized the federal government for imposing what he called &#8220;draconian tax laws&#8221; without consulting the business community.<\/p>\n<p>Flanked by senior vice president Abdul Jalil Jan and executive committee members, Khan warned that if the controversial measures are not rolled back, the protest movement could intensify. &#8220;We may be compelled to suspend the filing of Sales Tax and Income Tax returns,&#8221; he cautioned.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has thrown its full weight behind the countrywide shutter-down strike scheduled for July 19, in protest against what it terms anti-business provisions in the Finance Act 2025-26. At a press conference held at the Chamber House on Monday, SCCI President Fazal Moqeem Khan strongly criticized the federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}