[StreetChief]

Well I was thinking more along the lines of the price of a good is x, plus y taxes, reduced by -z tax. Subsidys might effectively be similar, but it won't be calculated the way "positive" taxes are.

[abdullahkhalids]

Hmmm. Don't know about the electricity market.

But, again in Pakistan's Punjab province, at restaurants, if you pay by cash, sales tax is 19% and if you pay by card, sales tax is 5%.

It's a method by the state to increase the size of the formal economy.