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The 2024–25 Pakistan Federal Budget is a financial statement of the government's estimated receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year that runs from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. [1] [2] On 12 June 2024, finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presented the federal budget with a total outlay of Rs18.877 trillion. [3] The same day, a copy of the ...
The Pakistan government spent over 1 trillion rupees (about $16.7 billion) on poverty alleviation programs during the past four years, reducing poverty from 35% in 2000–01 to 29.3% in 2013 and further to 17% in 2015. [57] Rural poverty remains a pressing issue, as development in those areas has been significantly slower than in major urban areas.
Pakistan’s new coalition government presented its first budget in parliament on Wednesday, promising an increase of up to 25% in the salaries of government employees and setting an ambitious tax ...
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) (Urdu: شماریاتِ بیورو پاکستان) is a federal agency under the Government of Pakistan. [1] It is an attached department of the Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives. It works for collecting statistics in the country. [2]
Pakistan has experienced an economic crisis as part of the 2022 political unrest. It has caused severe economic challenges for months due to which food, gas and oil prices have risen. As of 1 January 2025 Pakistan inflation rate was 4.1% lowest in 6.75 years. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused fuel prices to rise worldwide. Excessive ...
Pakistan primary surplus target of 0.2% of GDP; Targeted fiscal deficit of 4.9% of GDP; Increased tax on banks and fertilizers; Luxury tax on cars with 1,600cc engine size and above. Tax on real estate transactions to 2% versus 1% for tax-payers; Increased taxes on tobacco companies by a third to 200 billion rupees; Fuel cuts for government ...
Economic Adviser's Wing: Basic functions include the publication of the Economic Survey of Pakistan, both in Urdu and English, before the announcement of the federal budget. The budgetary supplement evaluates the overall economic performance of the country based on various economic factors as evident in the preceding fiscal year's data. [4]
The Government of Pakistan (Urdu: حکومتِ پاکستان, romanized: hukūmat-e-pākistān) (abbreviated as GoP), constitutionally known as the Federal Government, [a] commonly known as the Centre, [b] is the national authority of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of four provinces and one federal territory.