Growth in federal tax revenues
Federal tax revenues consist primarily of FBR revenues. In addition, they include other taxes like the gas infrastructure development cess, natural gas development surcharge and the petroleum levy. The share…
Growth in tax revenues
Tax revenues have shown buoyancy in the first half of 2017-18. The overall growth rate in these revenues of the federal and provincial governments combined is 16 percent. During the…
Non-tax revenue
The budget for 2013-14 envisaged 800 million dollars from the auction of 3G licence and another 800 million dollars pending payment from Etisalat for the privatisation of PTCL. Finance Minister…
Federal tax revenues – receipt side
There is a need for a national anti-smuggling drive with political consensus for people to discourage and disassociate from purchase, sale and trade in smuggled goods. The ultimate solution for…
The whys of low tax revenue
The tax authorities are Rs47 billion short of the revenue target for the financial year 2011-12. The revenue collection reported in the media is Rs1,905 billion, which includes Rs25 billion…
Taxation beyond revenue
The Federal Board of Revenue earlier announced having successfully exceeded its revenue collection target for the month of November -- and hence having collected surplus revenue in the first five…
Revenue, health benefits of raising tobacco taxes
Raising tax revenues during the third wave of Covid-19 is a daunting task for the policymakers in Pakistan. There are hardly any policy options available for the federal government to…
Taxes and revenues
Last week I wrote about a proposal floated by some researchers connected with the World Bank and a few other donor agencies to begin relying more on turnover taxes instead…
Paradigm shift in tax policy
‘The impact of economic growth on the lives of people is partly a matter of income distribution, but it also depends greatly on the use that is made of the…
Budget, taxes, revival & growth
Fiscal consolidation should be as growth-friendly as possible. In general, tax base-broadening reforms are identified as growth-oriented reforms. To the extent that they reduce distortions to economic decisions on work,…
