(MENAFN) The Lebanese government will announce on Friday how it will resolve a legal dispute over taxes to fund a public-sector pay increase, said the information minister in a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
Information Minister Melhem Riachy said, "The atmosphere is very positive and tomorrow we will announce the legal measures to deal with the matter of the (public sector pay rise) and the tax law", according to a report by the National News Agency.
Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's government is looking for a way to approve the taxes needed to finance the pay rise that targets legal objections raised by the constitutional council.
The council, a branch of the courts, last week annulled the tax law previously approved by parliament, leading to strikes by many public sector workers.
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