Electric, which supplies electricity to the country’s largest city, has agreed to collect taxes for the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC).
In this regard, Karachi Metropolitan Commissioner Afzal Zaidi has written a letter to the Sindh government’s energy department asking the Sindh government to seek permission from NEPRA in this regard.
The letter to Sindh Energy Department further said that Karachi Metropolitan Municipality (KMC) has been levying municipal utility tax since 2008.
A letter from Metropolitan Commissioner Karachi Afzal Zaidi to the Sindh government’s energy department also said that KMC could collect taxes through a third party.