DADU, May 25: The Mehar Taluka Council has proposed to levy 18 new taxes and increase the rates of existing taxes from June.

Giving details of the tax proposals, the town municipal officer (TMO), Mehar, Masroor Soomro, told newsmen on Friday that lawyers, doctors and hakeems (oriental medicine practitioners) would have to pay a tax of Rs2,000 yearly.

He said that a tax of Rs2 per day would be levied on shops and Rs100 on sign boards.

The TMO said that it was proposed to initially levy Rs10,000 to 15,000 tax on map, tender fee and hotel while rural games like malakhro (indigenous wrestling), cattle markets and issuance of NOCs were also included in the schedule of proposed taxes.

He said that objections to tax proposals had been invited by the taluka Nazim and Naib Nazim up to May 30.

A four-member committee, consisting the TMO three Naib Nazims had also been constituted in this regard, he said.

Reacting to the tax proposals, advocate Ghulam Hassan, Dr Abdul Haq and some other citizens had opposed them.—APP