{"id":463513,"date":"2022-01-24T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463513"},"modified":"2022-01-24T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:40:51","slug":"cpec-project-in-pok-hits-roadblock-over-tax-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cpec-project-in-pok-hits-roadblock-over-tax-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"CPEC project in PoK hits roadblock over tax issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The China financed China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has hit a major roadblock over an energy project in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese company could halt the construction of a mega hydro-power project under CPEC in PoK over local tax, ET has learnt. The Chinese company has asked Pakistan to immediately address the issue related to the adoption of a 1% fixed tax by the PoK on the offshore procurement contract of the 1,124-megawatt Kohala Hydropower Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the issue is not resolved, the Chinese may drop this project from the CPEC\u2019s list of projects,&#8221; leading Pakistan English Daily \u2018Dawn\u2019 reported last week quoting a local Pakistani official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The China financed China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has hit a major roadblock over an energy project in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). A Chinese company could halt the construction of a mega hydro-power project under CPEC in PoK over local tax, ET has learnt. The Chinese company has asked Pakistan to immediately address the issue related to the adoption of a 1% fixed tax by the PoK on the offshore procurement contract of the 1,124-megawatt Kohala Hydropower Project. \u201cIf the issue is not resolved, the Chinese may drop this project from the CPEC\u2019s list of projects,&#8221; leading Pakistan English Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}