Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-22T06:00:57+00:00SCHEDULE OF WAGE RATES – 2019 — Finance Department has prepared Schedule of Wage Rates – 2019 prescribing wages of the work charged establishment employed on seasonal and short term basis in the Irrigation, Energy, Communication and Works Development Department and Local Governments as well as all other development works related entities of the Government of the Punjab. Wage rates given in the Schedule are revised keeping in view the changes / revisions in the Basic Pay Scales and a Allowances of civil employees of the Punjab Government & to keep it in accordance with minimum wage rates fixed by Labour & Human Resource Department. Appointment of Work Charged Employees shall be made in accordance with procedure laid down in the Preface of Schedule of Wage Rates – 2019.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-19T05:20:21+00:00COMPILATION OF GENERAL ORDERS RELATING TO ALLOWANCES (OTHER THAN TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE) OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — This Compilation incorporates all important General Orders relating to Allowances other than Travelling Allowance. Compilation of General Orders Relating to Allowances (Other than Travelling Allowance) was last prepared in July, 2002. Since then a number of orders have either been deleted, amended, updated or replaced by the Government, necessitating its revision. The clarifications and amendments, issued from time to time since 2002, have been incorporated. While latest orders have also been placed in the new edition.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-18T04:30:50+00:00[NAME OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT] (PARKING) BYE – LAWS, 2018 — These bye-laws shall extend to the local area of [Name of Local Government]. These bye–laws shall come into force from the date these are published in the official Gazette. Parking Place / Area means an area notified by the Local Government for parking. Parking Equipment means all such equipment which are necessary to regulate parking system including parking infrastructure. Parking Fee means the fee, including fixed or hourly as notified by the [Name of Local Government] for its own parking places / areas and private parking spaces / areas in the plazas, shopping mall and commercial centers. Vehicle means and includes motor cycle, Rickshaw, motor car / jeep and light transport vehicle which is used for carrying goods or used for transportation of passengers within the local area. No person shall establish any parking stand/area and charge parking fee, on any property or on any open space and public park or land vested in or managed, maintained or controlled by a local government on or under a street, road, graveyard or a drain without the sanction of the Local Government.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-07-17T06:03:20+00:00GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO PENSIONERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DATED: 15th JULY, 2019
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-07-17T06:06:41+00:00AD-HOC RELIEF ALLOWANCE – 2019 TO THE CIVIL EMPLOYEES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DATED: 05th JULY, 2019
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-07-19T06:02:17+00:00AUSTERITY MEASURES FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 2018-19 (FEDERAL GOVERNMENT)
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-22T06:00:57+00:00SCHEDULE OF WAGE RATES – 2019 — Finance Department has prepared Schedule of Wage Rates – 2019 prescribing wages of the work charged establishment employed on seasonal and short term basis in the Irrigation, Energy, Communication and Works Development Department and Local Governments as well as all other development works related entities of the Government of the Punjab. Wage rates given in the Schedule are revised keeping in view the changes / revisions in the Basic Pay Scales and a Allowances of civil employees of the Punjab Government & to keep it in accordance with minimum wage rates fixed by Labour & Human Resource Department. Appointment of Work Charged Employees shall be made in accordance with procedure laid down in the Preface of Schedule of Wage Rates – 2019.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-07-31T04:41:21+00:00DISCONTINUATION OF CIVIL SECRETARIAT ALLOWANCE, CHIEF MINISTER’S OFFICE ALLOWANCE, GOVERNOR’S SECRETARIAT / HOUSE ALLOWANCE FOR THOSE OFFICERS WHO ARE ENTITLED FOR GRANT OF THE EXECUTIVE ALLOWANCE
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-07-30T06:22:41+00:00GRANT OF EXECUTIVE ALLOWANCE @ 1.5 TIMES OF THE MONTHLY BASIC PAY TO ALL OFFICERS WORKING ON THE CADRE STRENGTH / LIST OF POSTS DULY NOTIFIED BY SERVICES & GENERAL ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-07-12T11:37:31+00:00UP-GRADATION OF THE POSTS OF SECRETARY UNION COUNCILS APPOINTED UNDER THE PUNJAB LG&RD SERVICE RULES, 1981 AND PUNJAB GOVERNMENT DISTRICT SERVICE (TOWN / TEHSIL MUNICIPAL CADRE) RULES, 2005 WITH EFFECT FROM 01-07-2018
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-07-16T03:46:39+00:00DE-NOTIFICATION OF POLITICAL MEMBERS FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF SEVEN (07) WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES – GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB, LOCAL GOVERNMENT & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-19T05:20:21+00:00COMPILATION OF GENERAL ORDERS RELATING TO ALLOWANCES (OTHER THAN TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE) OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — This Compilation incorporates all important General Orders relating to Allowances other than Travelling Allowance. Compilation of General Orders Relating to Allowances (Other than Travelling Allowance) was last prepared in July, 2002. Since then a number of orders have either been deleted, amended, updated or replaced by the Government, necessitating its revision. The clarifications and amendments, issued from time to time since 2002, have been incorporated. While latest orders have also been placed in the new edition.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-08-31T04:15:19+00:00SYSTEM OF FINANCIAL CONTROL AND BUDGETING (SEPTEMBER – 2006) AS UPDATED UP TO OCTOBER, 2018 — The New System of Financial Control and Budgeting was introduced with effect from 1st July, 2000. It has been decided to review the system with a view to delegating more powers to administrative Ministries/Divisions and bring it in line with the Chart of Accounts (CoA) as laid down by the Auditor General of Pakistan. The procedures and financial limits laid down in this O.M shall take with immediate effect. The Secretary shall be the Principal Accounting Officer of the Ministry / Division, Attached Departments and Subordinate Offices in respect of the expenditure incurred against the budget grant (s) of the Ministry/Division. The term Secretary shall include the Principal Secretary, the Acting Secretary, the Additional Secretary Incharge or the Senior Joint Secretary/Joint Secretary Incharge of a Division.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-08-21T13:10:35+00:00FINANCE ACT, 2019 – EXPLANATION OF IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS MADE IN THE INCOME TAX ORDINANCE, 2001 — Finance Act, 2019 has brought about certain amendments in the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001. The term “offshore asset” has been defined by inserting a new clause (38AA) in Section 2 which includes any movable or immovable asset held, any gain, profit or income derived, or any expenditure incurred outside Pakistan. Every person, other than a company, receiving profit on debt from persons are separately taxed. Income from Property derived by an individual or an association of person is separately taxed on the gross amount of rent. The holding period for taxation of capital gain of open plots has been increased to eight years and for constructed properties, it has been increased to four years. Where the holding period does not exceed one year, the total amount of gain will be taxed.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-16T04:10:57+00:00THE PUNJAB MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 2019 — It shall extend to whole of the Punjab. It shall apply to all industrial and commercial establishments in the Punjab. It shall come into force at once. Employer means a person owing or having charge of the business of an industrial or commercial establishment and includes an agent or manager or any other person acting on behalf of such person in the general management or control of such establishment. Industry means any business, trade, manufacturing, calling, service, employment or occupation of producing goods or services for sale. An establishment or a person, who directly or indirectly, employs workers in connection with any construction work or industry and road transport service. Minimum wages” means rates of wages notified under the Act.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-14T03:52:36+00:00THE KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA FINANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2018 — It shall come into force from the 1st day of November, 2018.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-11T04:12:03+00:00THE SINDH COUNCILS MAYOR, DEPUTY MAYOR, CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIRMAN (HONORARIA AND PRIVILEGES) RULES, 2017 — They shall come into force at once. The words and expressions used but not defined in these rules shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act. Act means the Sindh Local Government Act, 2013.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-18T04:30:50+00:00[NAME OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT] (PARKING) BYE – LAWS, 2018 — These bye-laws shall extend to the local area of [Name of Local Government]. These bye–laws shall come into force from the date these are published in the official Gazette. Parking Place / Area means an area notified by the Local Government for parking. Parking Equipment means all such equipment which are necessary to regulate parking system including parking infrastructure. Parking Fee means the fee, including fixed or hourly as notified by the [Name of Local Government] for its own parking places / areas and private parking spaces / areas in the plazas, shopping mall and commercial centers. Vehicle means and includes motor cycle, Rickshaw, motor car / jeep and light transport vehicle which is used for carrying goods or used for transportation of passengers within the local area. No person shall establish any parking stand/area and charge parking fee, on any property or on any open space and public park or land vested in or managed, maintained or controlled by a local government on or under a street, road, graveyard or a drain without the sanction of the Local Government.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-13T04:24:37+00:00THE PUNJAB DEMARCATION, CLASSIFICATION AND NAMING OF LOCAL AREAS RULES, 2019 — They shall come into force at once. The words and expressions used but not defined in the rules shall have the same meanings as are assigned to it in the Act. For the purpose of the rules, every Commissioner shall be the Demarcation Authority for all Local Areas in the respective Division. The Demarcation Authority, inter alia, shall hear and decide all suggestions and objections against the initial proposal under Rule 10. Subject to the provisions of the Act and any regulation or standing instruction on the subject, the Demarcation Officer shall prepare a proposal, to be called the initial proposal, for division of all areas comprising the District, except the areas excluded under sub-section (2) of Section 1 of the Act, into Urban and Rural Local Areas in accordance with Rule 20.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-09-04T03:38:55+00:00THE PUNJAB LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (SCHEDULE OF ESTABLISHMENT) RULES, 2018 — They shall extend to all Local Governments except the District Education Authorities and District Health Authorities in the Punjab. They shall come into force with immediate effect. Amendment in the Schedule of Establishment means and include creation, upgradation, down gradation, abolition or conversion of any post. The Government may issue Schedule of Establishment for Local Governments and such schedule may include posts of Municipal Officers Planning, Finance, Regulation and Infrastructure. A newly constituted Local Government shall within thirty days of assuming the charge of the office shall draft its Schedule of Establishment on Form I, duly endorsed by its House provided that the Government may issue Schedule of Establishment in case a Local Government is failed to propose its Schedule of Establishment under sub rule (2) and such Local Government shall adopt it.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-07-29T04:48:38+00:00NEW INCOME TAX SLABS – 2019 — NEW SALARY SLABS AND RATE OF TAX ON SALARY SLABS – According to Section (9) of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, the taxable income of a person for a tax year shall be the total income of the person for the year reduced (but not below zero) by the total of any deductible allowances of this Chapter of the person for the year. Any salary received by an employee in a tax year, other than salary that is exempt from tax under Income Tax Ordinance, shall be chargeable to tax in that year under the head Salary. Salary means any amount received by an employee from any employment, whether of a revenue or capital nature. According to Section (149) of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, every person responsible for paying salary to an employee shall, at the time of payment, deduct tax from the amount paid at the employee’s average rate of tax computed at the rates specified in Division I of Part I of the First Schedule on the estimated income of the employee chargeable under the head “Salary” for the tax year in which the payment is made after making adjustment of tax withheld from employee under other heads. As per Finance Act, 2019, the salary slabs as well as tax rates have been revised with effect from 01-07-2019. As such all withholding tax agents disbursing salary are required to implement the revised tax rates from the same date.
Muhammad Imtiaz2019-05-09T10:31:25+00:00MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF FITNESS ON FIRST ENTRY INTO GOVERNMENT SERVICE (PUNJAB GOVERNMENT) — Authorities competent to make first appointments may require the submission of a medical certificate of fitness from temporary or officiating Government servants. In any case they must satisfy themselves that the candidate is protected against smallpox. Medical certificates should ordinarily be required from candidates on first appointment to Government service if they are likely to officiate or to hold temporary posts for any period exceeding six months. Re-employed persons who during their previous term of service under the Government had produced the required medical certificates need not be required to produce a fresh certificate unless the period between their discharge from their old posts and their appointment to the new posts is in excess of three months.
