The timing of the budget fiscal year 2019
The Abbasi administration has wholeheartedly endorsed Ishaq Dar's oft-announced decision to formulate and present the budget for fiscal year 2018-19 even though the party's tenure ends on 1 June 2018…
Budget Fiscal Year 2019: Where to go?
The main fault-line of budget 2018-19 is its failure to provide a roadmap for self-reliance - collecting taxes as per real tax potential and achieving growth rate of over 7%…
2019: Review of PTI govt’s fiscal measures — I
An unusual decline in revenue collection and steep rise in current expenditures caused a deterioration in all major fiscal indicators during FY19. The overall budget deficit during the year stood…
2019: Review of PTI govt’s fiscal measures — I
An unusual decline in revenue collection and steep rise in current expenditures caused a deterioration in all major fiscal indicators during FY19. The overall budget deficit during the year stood…
2020: main fiscal challenges
An unusual decline in revenue collection and steep rise in current expenditures caused a deterioration in all major fiscal indicators during FY19. The overall budget deficit during the year stood…
Fiscal federalism
Pakistan’s federal constitution lays out a framework of regulation between the federal government and the constituting provinces, which since the 1973 constitution remains at the core base of controversy and…
2019: Review of PTI govt’s fiscal measures — II
FBR Year Book 2018-19 concedes that withholding taxes constitute 67% of the total collection of income tax (it was 65% last year). Out of total collection of Rs. 1445.5 billion…
Federalisation versus centralisation: 2020: Year of road to prosperity
The Chairman of Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA), while addressing a conference on ‘Ease of doing business in Pakistan: a case for tax harmonisation’, organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute…
Shadows of fiscal stabilisation on trade and investment
The most frequent term used in recent weeks called as “stabilisation” surely has a reassuring reflection on External Accounts of Pakistan after implementation of IMF stabilisation programme. However, trade and…
Fiscal woes, Aramco IPO driving Saudi oil policy
Faced with dire economic straits due to low oil prices, Saudi Arabia is gearing up for deeper production cuts ahead of its massive Aramco share offering. Analysts say the cuts…
