The United Business Group (UBG) senior leader Ilyas Ahmad Bilour has demanded of the government to immediate announce a special relief package for small traders and shopkeepers whose businesses have adversely affected due to closure of markets, commercial and business hubs in wake of ongoing lockdown as precautionary steps to contain spread of the novel COVID-19.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Ilyas Ahmad Bilour said the coronavirus-hit small traders and shopkeepers should be exempted from all federal and provincial taxes immediately, besides facility of interest-free loans to be granted to them as well as rents of district government, Auquf properties should be waived for at least one year.