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How to slash your baby’s risk of developing the most common infant food allergy: study
According to a new study, parents can slash their baby's risk of one of the most common food allergies in one easy step.
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According to a new study, parents can slash their baby's risk of one of the most common food allergies in one easy step.
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The government will market its new “small trader scheme” as an effort to bring retailers into the tax net and generate Rs50 billion annually. A cursory look would, however, reveal that it is less a tax reform initiative and more a negotiated settlement with one of Pakistan’s most under-taxed yet politically influential constituencies. The scheme offers traders with annual sales of up to Rs200 million a simplified one per cent turnover tax on a voluntary basis. Participants will face minimal compliance requirements and will be exempt from audits, point-of-sale systems, digital invoicing and most forms of scrutiny. Existing non-filers can join under certain conditions. The government insists this is not a tax amnesty. But exempting traders from the very documentation tools — POS [point-of-sale] systems, digital invoicing — that the state claims to be expanding elsewhere makes that position hard to sustain. If the purpose is to integrate retailers into the documented economy, the scheme does the opposite. It risks entrenching the cash-based practices that have long kept retail trade outside the tax net. This follows a familiar pattern. Whenever governments attempt to broaden the tax base, trader resistance produces a compromise — a concessionary regime that falls short of genuine documentation. The Tajir Dost Scheme, introduced last year, largely failed; at one point, only a few dozen traders had reportedly joined. The new scheme is a variation of the same scheme, not a more effective alternative. The OICCI notes that the corporate sector, representing only 6pc of GDP, accounts for nearly 60-70pc of direct tax revenues, while retailers remain under taxed The scale of what is being forgone deserves emphasis. Pakistan’s retail sector is estimated to generate annual turnover in the range of Rs10 to Rs15 trillion, yet its contribution to direct tax revenues remains negligible. The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s (OICCI) tax proposal submissions to the government note that the corporate sector, representing only 6pc of GDP, accounts for nearly 60-70pc of direct tax revenues. That concentration is not a sign of corporate wealth; it is a sign of how narrow and distorted the tax base has become. The Rs50bn target attached to this scheme, even if met, would represent a fraction of what full compliance at standard rates could theoretically yield. Every scheme that keeps retailers outside the documented economy worsens that distortion. The contrast with salaried workers and corporations is too obvious. Formal-sector employees have taxes deducted automatically at source and face progressive rates that rise sharply with income. Corporations bear some of the highest effective tax rates in the region and must meet extensive reporting requirements. The OICCI has calculated that the effective burden on large corporates, once super tax, Workers Welfare Fund and Workers Profit Participation Fund contributions are included, reaches 45-46pc. For resident shareholders, the combined burden approaches 64pc, figures that place Pakistan among the most heavily taxed corporate jurisdictions in the region. A retailer turning over hundreds of millions of rupees, meanwhile, can now settle tax liabilities through a preferential regime while avoiding audits and documentation that other taxpayers cannot escape. This is not an equitable distribution of the tax burden; it is a distortion that the scheme deepens. That this sector continues to shoulder such rates while retailers negotiate preferential arrangements is the predictable result of repeatedly choosing accommodation over enforcement. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose conditions explicitly include broadening the tax base and reducing reliance on withholding taxes from a narrow set of documented taxpayers, has flagged the retail and wholesale sectors as critically under-taxed. Whether this scheme satisfies or contradicts its commitments with the fund is a question the government is unlikely to answer publicly, and one the IMF is unlikely to ignore when the next review comes around. The OICCI, representing the largest foreign investors operating in Pakistan, has explicitly called for all future tax exemptions and preferential treatments to pass through a transparent policy review mechanism under the proposed Tax Policy Office. The small trader scheme announced without any such review is precisely the kind of ad hoc concession that the body was designed to prevent. That the government bypassed this process, which it has itself committed to operationalising, raises questions about whether the Tax Policy Office will have any real authority or will simply be overridden whenever political costs become inconvenient. The political logic is straightforward. Traders are an important constituency for the ruling PML-N in urban Punjab. They are well-organised and capable of mobilising quickly. Mandatory documentation, digital invoicing and strict enforcement would carry real political costs. A voluntary, audit-free arrangement does not. The political costs of confronting traders are not hypothetical. When the government attempted to impose a minimum tax of Rs3,000 per shop in FY23, the then finance minister Miftah Ismail was publicly rebuked — not by the opposition, but by PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif. The message to traders, and to any future finance minister contemplating enforcement, was unambiguous. But that calculation has consequences: every concession granted to retailers increases pressure on sectors that are already fully documented and easy to tax. Revenue collection alone is not the benchmark for sound tax policy. Effective reform must broaden the tax base, improve documentation and distribute the burden more fairly. On those standards, the Fixed Tax Asaan Scheme fails. A credible alternative roadmap is not difficult to design. The tools and the blueprint are available. The OICCI, in its taxation proposals, has outlined one: a two-year programme to bring unregistered businesses into the tax net through digitisation, integration of existing databases and expansion of digital invoicing. That this framework has been formally submitted to the government and set aside in favour of a voluntary, audit-free scheme is telling. The OICCI has warned that the continued concentration of tax burden on the formal sector has already contributed to multinational companies scaling down operations or exiting Pakistan altogether. A tax policy that drives out documented, compliant investors while offering relief to undocumented ones does not just fail on fairness grounds; it actively undermines the investment base the country needs to grow its way out of fiscal stress. Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, June 8th, 2026
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Can the search for a hotel room lead to a business idea? It did, for Alok Mishra.In 2014, during a trip with his wife, Mishra needed a hotel room for six hours as he did not want to drive late at night. But he was asked to pay for a full day and subjected to a series of intrusive questions despite being married—and was finally refused a room. “That got me thinking that there might be travellers like me who need rooms only for a few hours but have to pay for an entire day. Later, while working in the US, I came across pay-for-use concepts and felt that India needed a more flexible, customer-friendly model,” he says.That experience led to the launch of Bag2Bag in 2019, an online platform for booking hotels, service apartments, homestays and other accommodations, with a focus on hourly stays.The business started gaining momentum around 2021. Bag2Bag’s hourly-stay revenue has risen from roughly Rs 50 lakh in 2021 to Rs 5-6 crore today. The company has served more than 1 lakh customers, lists over 10,000 properties across India and offers hourly stays at 6,000-7,000 of them. The service is available in more than 50 cities, though Bengaluru and Mumbai remain its strongest markets.Also read | The safe keepers: Inside India's booming locker economy“People now understand that this is a practical solution rather than a niche service. One of our biggest achievements has been to help normalise the category. Earlier, hourly stays were often associated with couples seeking privacy,” he says. “We deliberately broadened the use case by allowing family bookings, including travellers with children. We wanted people to see hourly stays for what they really are— a convenient accommodation option.”HOUR OF NEED That convenience is growing as online hotel booking platforms that allow short stays are on the rise. Alongside Bag2Bag, there is Noida-based Brevistay, Bengaluruheadquartered MiStay, Mumbai’s Hourly Rooms and Qwiksta, all specialising in micro stays. Larger travel platforms like MakeMyTrip, Agoda and Goibibo have also introduced hourly booking options.Like Bag2Bag, Brevistay was born out of a travel inconvenience. In 2016, cofounders Prateek Singh, Aditya Naithani, Shubham Agarwal, Avnish Kumar and Nikhil Pathak arrived in Manali at 5 am only to find that hotels would not allow early check-ins without charging for an extra night. The friends went on to cofound the travel tech startup Brevistay, which raised Rs 3 crore in 2023 and today reports revenue of about Rs 18 crore. It has 15 lakh registered users, 4 lakh monthly active users and around 11,000 listed hotels, including brands such as Ginger, Ramada and Blue Motel.LONG JOURNEY Getting there, however, was not easy.Pathak, cofounder and chief technology officer of Brevistay, says, “The challenge in this segment is not customers but hotels. In 2016, many hoteliers would simply bang the phone on us. Some agreed in principle but didn’t want their properties listed publicly and preferred bookings to come through offline calls. It took us nearly two years before we started seeing meaningful traction and recurring bookings,” says Pathak.The same resistance greeted MiStay when it launched in 2016. Starting with a pilot in Delhi, MiStay has since expanded to more than 100 cities. Shwetha Sameernath, general manager, business and growth, MiStay, says, “When we launched, scepticism was high. Most hotels were uncomfortable with the model, concerned about guest quality and operational challenges. Over time, that changed as hotels began seeing it as a revenue opportunity.”MiStay tackled resistance through education and curation. The company worked to show hoteliers that short stays served a broad and legitimate market of business travellers, transit passengers and day-use guests. It also selectively onboarded premium hotel brands, helping build credibility for the category. “When hotels see actual customer segments across varied, legitimate use cases, it builds their confidence that the model won’t compromise their brand,” says Sameernath, adding that the concept is now largely normalised.Also read | Major change in buyer behaviour as e-scooters race deeper into BharatPathak says the customer has evolved as well. Brevistay continues to market actively to couples, but he argues that the category should no longer be viewed through that lens. “There’s nothing illegal happening. In fact, there’s no law that prevents consenting adults from booking a hotel room. The issue was perception, not legality. What eventually changed minds was revenue,” he says. “Once hotels realised they could sell the same room multiple times in a day and generate seven or eight bookings instead of one, the business case became impossible to ignore.”The use cases have expanded too. Back in 2017, couples accounted for nearly 90% of Brevistay’s bookings. Today, that figure is down to 50-60%. Business travellers, transit passengers, tourists looking to freshen up between journeys, students travelling for exams and people attending interviews or meetings have all emerged as important customer segments.Hotels, meanwhile, have had to adapt operationally. Mishra says the biggest challenge is that traditional hotel system was never designed for flexible check-ins and check-outs. Bag2Bag addressed this by developing its own software platform for partner hotels. “Once they realised they could monetise idle inventory and generate additional revenue from rooms that would otherwise remain empty, adoption became much easier,” he says.REVENUE CHECKS IN For Sameernath, the turning point was the entry of premium hotel brands. “Today, acceptance has grown across the ecosystem. Channel managers and property management systems are evolving to support slot-based bookings, and customers increasingly treat hourly booking as the natural way to reserve a room for less than a day,” she says.Also read | Indian tourists go viral for all wrong reasons. Here's how not to become the next horror storyMishra has observed another interesting shift. Reliability and brand trust are becoming increasingly important. “Whether it’s a three-star or a five-star property, even if a branded hotel costs 20-25% more, customers prefer it because they know what they’re getting,” he says. The economics are compelling for hotels too. Sameernath points out that average hotel occupancy in India is under 65%, while daytime occupancy can fall to as low as 30% as guests check out in the morning and new arrivals come in much later. Platforms like MiStay help hotels monetise those idle hours by attracting guests who would never have booked a full-day room. “For hotels near airports or railway stations, the upside is even greater. A room priced at Rs 8,000 for a full night could earn Rs 3,500-4,000 for a daytime slot and another Rs 6,000 for the night—generating `10,000-plus from the same room in a single day,” she says.CHANGING PERCEPTION MiStay today works with brands like IHG, Pride, Ramada, The Park, Radisson and Novotel IHG, while Brevistay is in discussions with Hyatt. Sameernath says that on the demand side, once customers experience flexible booking, they don’t go back. Their repeat rate reflects this, as 48% of MiStay’s monthly business comes from repeat guests “The pay-per-use model in hospitality is the same transformation that happened in transport. You no longer book a cab for a full day; you pay for the distance. Hotels are heading the same way,” she says.Pathak believes the next wave of growth will be driven by younger travellers. “They’re vocal about spending time with their partners and don’t carry the hesitation earlier generations did. In metros, the industry has largely moved beyond the old perceptions, and hourly stays are increasingly viewed as a convenience product rather than something unusual.”The customer, it seems, has reached the destination. The hospitality industry needs to arrive.ChallengesPersistent social stigmaTrust and safety concernsBranded hotels worried about perceptionComplexities in managing multiple check-ins and check-outsLack of awareness among travellersOpportunitiesRise in domestic travel and frequent short tripsGrowth of bleisure (business + leisure) travelYounger consumers demanding flexibilityTech platforms making discovery and booking seamlessHotels looking to monetise vacant rooms
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