The Colossal Negative effects of the Withdrawal of Tax Subsidy to Teachers and Researchers in the draft finance bill of new Budget 2013-14. This step will have a disastrous effect on Health sector as well as all other sectors related to education and research. Kindly mobilize a campaign to sensitize the Govt to withdraw this announcement. Dr Samrina Hashmi President Pakistan Medical Association Sindh Chapter In 2000-01, the Government of Pakistan introduced a tax rebate of 75% to full-time teachers and researchers as a strategy to put a hold on the outflow of some of the best talent in the country including educationists, researchers, doctors, nurses, engineers, and other professionals who were migrating out of the country. Since then this has helped in retention of trained professionals whose pay scales are much lower in Pakistan as compared to the developed world and the Gulf region. This has helped to raise the standards of teaching, research, health services, and other professional services in the country. The pay scales in Pakistan are far lower than the levels offered to the professionals in the developed world or in the Gulf region. There is announcement in the draft finance bill of withdrawal of Tax subsidy to Full time teachers and researchers – cbr.gov.pk/budget/SalientFeatures/SalientFeatursIncomeTax.pdf Item 29 (iv) and (v) as follows: If this is implemented, it will lead to severe brain drain, and destroy the gains made in education, research, health services, other professional services over the last 10 years. It is highly recommended that it must be withdrawn immediately. It will result in best teachers, researchers, doctors, nurses, engineers, professionals from a large number of fields seeking and gaining employment in the Gulf and other western countries as talented work force from Pakistan is internationally sought after human capital. This will be detrimental to the delivery of education, health services, and other professional services at every level in our country. This will prevent Pakistanis from benefiting from world-class education, health services and other professional services in Pakistan. A large majority of those who can not gain employment in the international markets will be left to serve the country with resultant lower standards in every area. With the exit of researchers, the country will not be able to introduce any new technology and we will always be dependent on the developed world; Our students will be deprived of highly qualified teachers, our hospitals will be deprived of highly trained specialist doctors, etc., etc. It will be a national disaster with a huge cut in take home pay of all the teachers and researchers in Pakistan, and it will be against the manifesto of the new Government to support education and research. This move to reverse the tax rebate will be disastrous for the faculty and researchers in Pakistan. It was cause irreparable damage if not reversed. The new Government may lose its good image within the highly educated community.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:07:41 +0000
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