Unconventional budget proposals
Like every year, an attempt is made in this article to suggest comprehensive tax reforms agenda for Budget-2018-198, to be announced on April 27, 2018. The conventional proposals/changes in the…
Runaway budget deficits
The last three years witnessed a steady decline in the consolidated budget deficit during the tenure of the IMF program. The deficit was 6.4% of the GDP in 2012-13, excluding…
Budget exercise useful?
The following is a brief reproduction of a conversation. 'AOA Sir... jee sir I am fine... Just called to inform you that now is the good time to buy a…
HEC to get Rs20b more budget to meet educational challenges
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will get Rs20 billion more budget from the government aimed at to invigorate and to strengthen the higher educational institutions, besides improving quality education across…
Budget and budgetism
Drum rolls please......The budget has been presented. The sanctity of the budget surpasses that of the Constitution. We have had periods of abrogation or suspension of the Constitution, but never…
The budget 2019-20
An extremely harsh 2019-20 budget is the general expectation based on the 'prior' International Monetary Fund (IMF) condition to bring the primary deficit to 0.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product…
Avant-garde budget proposals-III: Tapping the real potential
A country's tax gap is measured by the amount of tax that remains uncollected due to non-compliance with tax laws. 'Pakistan Tax Gaps: Estimates by Tax Calculation and Methodology' (http://aysps.gsu.edu/isp/files/ispwp0811(1).pdf),…
VCs term higher education budget insufficient, call for release of Rs10bn
Terming the annual budgetannounced by thefederalgovernment for the higher education sector insufficient, the Vice Chancellors` Committee here on Thursday demanded that Rs10 billion should be released as a supplementary grant…
Health budgets
JUNE is the month of annual budget presentation. With the centre wholly focusing on squeezing provincial transfers to fund growing federal expense, both the provincial and federal budgets are slashing…
The forthcoming budget
The Federal budget for 2019-20 will be presented tomorrow in the Parliament. This budget has considerable significance. First, it will present the expected budgetary outcome for the on-going financial year,…
