Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause "net profits" shall be computed by
deducting from the revenues accruing from the bulk supply of power from the busbars of a
hydroelectric station at a rate to be determined by the Council of Common Interests, the
operating expenses of the station, which shall include any sums payable as taxes, duties,
interest or return on investment, and depreciations and element of obsolescence, and over
heads, and provision for reserves.
162. Prior sanction of President required to Bills affecting taxation in which
Provinces are interested. No Bill or amendment which imposes or varies a tax or duty the
whole or part of the net proceeds whereof is assigned to any Province, or which varies the
meaning of the expression "agricultural income" as defined for the purposes of the
enactments relating to incometax, as defined for the purposes of the enactments relating to
incometax, or which affects the principles on which under any of the foregoing provisions of
this Chapter moneys are or may be distributable to Provinces, shall be introduced or moved in
the National Assembly except with the previous sanction of the President.
163. Provincial taxes in respect of professions, etc. A Provincial Assembly may by Act
impose taxes, not exceeding such limits as may from time to time be fixed by Act of
1[MajliseShoora (Parliament)], on persons engaged in professions, trades, callings or
employments, and no such Act of the Assembly shall be regarded as imposing a tax on
income.
Miscellaneous Financial Provisions
164. Grants out of Consolidated Fund. The Federation or a Province may make grants
for any purpose, notwithstanding that the purpose is not one with respect to which 1[Majlis
eShoora (Parliament)] or, as the case may be, a Provincial Assembly may make laws.
165. Exemption of certain public property from taxation. __ (1) The Federal
Government shall not, in respect of its property or income, be liable to taxation under any Act
of Provincial Assembly and, subject to clause (2), a Provincial Government shall not, in
respect of its property or income, be liable to taxation under Act of 1[MajliseShoora
(Parliament)] or under Act of the Provincial Assembly of any other Province.
(2) If a trade or business of any kind is carried on by or on behalf of the Government of a
Province outside that Province, that Government may, in respect of any property used in
connection with that trade or business or any income arising from that trade or business, be
taxed under Act of 1[MajliseShoora (Parliament)] or under Act of the Provincial Assembly
of the Province in which that trade or business is carried on.
(3) Nothing in this Article shall prevent the imposition of fees for services rendered.
1 Subs. by the Revival of the Constitution of 1973 order, 1985 (P.O. No. 14 of 1985), Art. 2 and Sch., for "Parliament".
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