According to details, the KMHOA did not press their constitutional petition no D-3934 of 2013 during the hearing in Sindh High Court on May 31, 2018 and the court dismissed the petition as not pressed.
Needless to mention, Sindh Sales Tax on the services provided or rendered by Marriage Halls & Lawns were levied since July 1, 2011 but not being collected due to ad-interim orders in the aforesaid constitutional petitions.
Meanwhile, an SRB official said that with the dismissal of the aforesaid petitions, the SRB is now able to enforce the levy and collection of the Sindh Sales Tax on the services of Marriage Halls & Lawns including those located in hotels or clubs.
He further informed that standalone marriage halls, lawns and marquees located on plots of up to 800 square yards were exempted from sales tax provided that these were non-air conditioned and not located in hotels or clubs and not owned or operated or managed by caterers and had no branch or any other marriage hall or lawn in Sindh.
He said that provincial sales tax on the services of marriage halls and lawns were being collected by the concerned provincial sales tax authorities in provinces other than Sindh.