Budget At A Glance For FY 2020-21 (Rs. in Billion) Receipts Expenditure Tax Revenue 5,464 A. Current 6,345 – FBR…
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Sindh Budget The Sindh government presented the budget for FY2020-21 with a total outlay of Rs1.24 trillion with an estimated…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Nov 8, 2019[/box] According to the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute…
Women financial empowerment is one of the most negligent matters in almost every national budget of Pakistan, including current budget…
Personal finance is the management of financial resources. Saving helps us to overcome significant problems in our lives. To manage…
Increased population growth rate causes increased energy requirements in Pakistan which is growing rapidly. The present Government of Pakistan has…
Increase in discount rate a good step for banking sector progress Meezan Bank remains top Islamic bank in Pakistan with…
Interview with Mr Nadeem Shah — Vice President, Sindh Abadgar Board PAGE: Tell me something about yourself and your contribution…
Trying to stabilize the uncertain economic conditions of the country, the PTI government has set an ambitious tax revenue targets…
June 11th was the lucky day for Hammad Azhar, Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs as he presented…
The present government unveiled its first full budget with total outlay of Rs. 7.022 trillion for FY 2019-2020. Following is…
Last week, the Balochistan government announced a Rs419.92 billion budget for the fiscal year 2019-20 with a Rs41.71 billion deficit…
The recent budget for FY 2019-20 has outlined incentives for some industries while other may feel the pinch. On a…
Image from https://www.asiatimes.com/ Pakistan’s growth rate of GDP has reached a new high. According to the data released by the…
Fixing corporate tax at 29% a jolt to industry; salary raise of lower grade employees a great job Interview with…
Interview with Mr Ashfaq Yousuf Tola – a renowned tax expert Pakistan & Gulf Economist had an exclusive conversation with Mr…
Salient Features Of Budget 2019-20 The total outlay of budget FY2020 is Rs 8,238.1 billion. This size is 38.9 percent…
For the economic growth and development, the economists revealed that the manufacturing has been considered as the main engine. They…
President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President All Karachi Industrial Alliance (AKIA), Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel…
Government expenditure is a critical factor in the calculation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of any country. Hence, it is…
Like other countries, role of manufacturing sector in Pakistan’s economy is of paramount significance. Enhanced exports are believed to benefit…
Pakistan has promising future but chaos must be handled generously, says EFP chief Pakistan & Gulf Economist sought views of the…
The National Economic Council (NEC),the country’s highest decision-making body on economic policy, in consensus with federal cabinet is looking forward…
Image source: https://www.google.com Former finance minister Asad Umar, who made a speech at the extra-budgetary consultation and scheduled conference in…
Image source: South Asia Center Pakistan announces fiscal year budget for next fiscal year, setting an additional income target…
Pakistan: Salient Features Of The Budget 2018-19 The total outlay of budget FY2019 is Rs 5,932.5 billion. This size is…
External debt plays both a pessimistic as well as optimistic role in shaping economic growth in any country mainly developing.…
President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President All Karachi Industrial Alliance (AKIA), Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel…
The recent positivity in stock markets came after the government announced the second supplementary budget withdrawing critical taxes on capital…
The last fiscal year concluded with a mammoth fiscal deficit of 6.6 percent of GDP (Rs2.260 trillion) and a record…
Is the incumbent government righting the wrongs of the erstwhile government with the presentation of the mini-budget? Was the mini-budget…
New government immediately after assuming power started working on reviving the economy of the country. Federal Minister for Finance, Revenue,…
The government made fiscal adjustments of Rs815 billion or 2.1 percent of the GDP for bringing down the budget deficit…
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] [divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] [ads1] Pakistan: Consumer Price Index by group of commodities and services…
In an attempt to usher change in the way economy of Pakistan is managed, the incumbent government headed by Imran…
Pakistan ranked third largest fiscal deficit country among 36 economies: ADB Pakistan recorded a record budget deficit of Rs2.26 trillion…
The telecom sector needs to be granted industrial status. Before the current fiscal year budget, a high-level representatives of telecom…
It may or may not be true that the sentiments are the reasons for the performance of Pakistan Stock Exchange.…
[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ben Phillips, Australian National University and Matthew Gray, Australian National University[/box] Does the Coalition’s tax plan…
Let’s analyze the impact of the Federal Budget 2018-19 announced a couple of weeks ago by the couple-of-week old Finance…
As was expected, the budget for FY 2018-19 turned out to be ‘people centric’ as this is the election year…
Addressing the post budget press conference, the Federal Minister for Finance Miftah Ismail said, “We have no intention to go…
Over a thousand points decline in KSE-100 index suggests that the Budget has failed to fetch the interest of Investor…
The Senate Standing Committee on Finance during the post-budget 2018-19 session informed that Pakistan has no more plan to enter…
Low cost of doing business and utility rates will help economy prosper Interview with Mr Shamim A. Firpo – Chairman,…
Pakistan: Salient features of the Budget 2018-19 The total outlay of budget 2018-19 is Rs 5,932.5 billion. This size is…
The educators proclaimed that education sector is one of the main sectors in the world which empowers and creates ability…
Looking at the economic progress of Pakistan over the period of last 05 years of the incumbent government, one can…
This is the election year in Pakistan so any discussion on budget is to be read in this context. The…
The federal cabinet approved budgetary papers with total outlay of Rs5,500 billion for budget 2018-19, where tax collection has been…
The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) KSE-100 was Asia’s top-performing Index in 2016 but 2017 proved to be a nightmare. Equity-based…
In the upcoming fiscal year 2018-19, the government is considering raising subsidies to Rs 189 billion from the current year’s…
The government had allocated Rs50 billion amount as privatization proceeds for the current fiscal year. It is yet to be…
Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs, Dr. Miftah Ismail has stated the next Budget of fiscal…
Representative bodies and bodies promoting trade and investment in the country presented the following proposals for the Budget 2018-19: Demands…
Exclusive discussion with Dr. Ayub Mehar, Economist PAGE had discussion with Dr. Ayub Mehar about the budget 2018-19. He termed…
Proposals in new budget will likely favor the Pakistan Stocks Exchange Interview with Mr Humayum Javed — CEO, WE Financial…
Pakistan: Salient features of the budget 2017-18 The total outlay of budget 2017-18 is Rs 5,103.8 billion. This size is…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hile the government makes tall claims of providing education to the citizens this is not reflected in the budget for…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he federal government has recently sold the Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (PSPC) to State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for Rs100…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the simplest words, the budget of a country expresses developmental plans for a year and measures to finance these…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he 2017-18 budget is designed for election year. It is of little value to the economy’s health in the medium…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f one reviews Pakistan’s economy, the development seems lopsided. The successive governments have experimented with different models from private sector…
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ontrary to popular belief, the biggest expenditure item in the 2017 budget is ‘interest’, not defense or education or any…
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]chool teachers, college lecturers and university professors slammed the government’s decision to increase their salaries by just 10 percent in…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he PML-(Nawaz)-led Balochistan coalition government unveiled the provincial budget for fiscal year 2017-18 with a total outlay of Rs328 billion.…
Interview with Muhammad Jawed Bilwani – Chairman, Pakistan Apparel Forum & spokesman of seven Industrial Associations of Karachi [box type=”shadow”…
Interview with Mr Shamim Ahmed Firpo – President, Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry PAGE: KINDLY TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT…
RESOURCE POSITION IN BUDGET OF PAKISTAN (Rs in Million) DETAILS BUDGET 2016-17 REVISED 2016-17 BUDGET2017-18 A. Internal Resources 3,759,263 3,230,492…
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resent Economic Statistics revealed that during the previous years, the Government of Pakistan has successfully done well in enhancing the…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he fiscal year 2017-18 budget is designed for election year objective. It is of little value to the economic health…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he major concern of the trade and industry is the rising rate of inflation and what they called the complexities…
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]igh aggregate demand and falling energy prices for the past couple of years should have been a stimulus for domestic…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he government hinted at a populist budget for 2017-18 with a focus to facilitate people and entice the business sector.…
Interview with Mr Samad Habib — Chief Executive, Javedan Corporation Ltd [box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]PROFILE After completing his education…
BUDGETARY POSITION OF PAKISTAN (Rs. In Million) Classification Budget 2015-16 Revised Budget 2015-16 Budget 2016-17 I) RESOURCES ( a +…
Interview with Mian Zahid Hussain, (Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Hon. Ph.D), Former Minister of Information Technology, Government of Sindh [box type=”shadow” align=”” class=””…