BUDGET 2008, what to expect?
As you all know that the annual budget for the year 2008-2009 is arriving in 2nd week of this coming month. The present scenario (especially in case of house hold commodities) the retailers in the market seem in dumping a range of products for future sale. This is the revenue generating technique used by greedy retailers as well as whole sellers when they hold their stock from the reach of final consumer as they expect the prices of these products to be raised after the budget because of the increasing in sales tax, with holding tax, custom duty etc.Â
In Pakistan these sort of illegal marketing & sale activities came into sight before the budget every year, but I felt extensive disappointment when I witnessed the medicine market retailers engaged in such kind of shameful activities. So let me tell you about the story behind this. Yesterday I went to hospital too see my friend, who undergoes from a minor eye operation for vision correction, yes I found him quite well, healthy & happy. We talk for few minutes & later he requested me to buy him a medicine from somewhere because it was not available in the hospital & the nearby medical stores.  So therefore after leaving him I make my way towards the main medical complex of the city, but unfortunately I didn’t found the said medicine from there. Then a man who was also there to bought some medicines offer me that  give me some extra money I will arrange this medicine for you. & yes he bought it from the same market with but with extra price. & when I ask the reason why he pays extra? He told me all, which I have mentioned above.
