Overseas Pakistanis earn over $50bn disposable income
ISLAMABAD: Millions of Pakistanis living abroad earn over $ 50 billion as disposable income out of which only $ 20 billion is...
Indirect taxes continue hurting the poorest of the poor
Like the previous budgets, the government, instead of reducing inequalities and burden of taxes on the poor, continued indirect taxes as 60...
Increased development budget due to proper tax collection measures: Ahsan
Minister for Planning and Reform Ahsan Iqbal has said that the development budget has been increased as a result of proper tax...
Poultry industry lays bare heavy handedness by FBR before Dar
The Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) on Monday laid bare the highly unfair treatment meted out to the industry by the tax mandarins...
Dar directs FBR to incorporate tax proposals on urgent basis
The Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday asked the Federal Board of Revenue to incorporate tax proposals on urgent basis for the...
Pre-budget seminar: Zero -rating regime to continue in near future
While over Rs 100 billion sales tax refunds are yet to be paid to exporters, the government has announced that at least...
Govt considering abolishing GST on fertilisers in budget FY17-18
After finding the process too cumbersome to provide subsidy on fertiliser to growers, the government is considering a major tax proposal to...
CDWP press release issued after a day’s delay
The Planning Commission has a professional team of half a dozen media managers, having expertise in texting to electronic and social media...
ECNEC approves Lahore-Sialkot Motorway, East Bay Expressway Gwadar
The PML-N government maintained its priority for the highways as the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Wednesday approved...
CDWP approves Karachi Circular Railway, Peshawar Rapid Bus project
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Wednesday approved development projects worth Rs 130 billion including a CPEC scheme ‘Revival of Karachi...
Dar directs resolution of all foreign-funded projects
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday directed expeditious resolution of issues that were hindering the implementation of foreign-funded development projects. .
Ishaq Dar...
Govt releases Rs 483m under PSDP against a total budget of Rs 800b
The federal government has released Rs 482.8b (60.4pc), including Rs122b foreign aid, for different development projects under the Public Sector Development Programme...
Over Rs274 mln released for Revenue Division projects
The government has so far released Rs274.122 million for various projects of the Revenue Division out of its total allocations of Rs687.304...
Discount, thy name is Black Friday
A 22-year-old bride-to-be and a student of management sciences, Samra Ejaz bought a cellphone, a microwave and an LED TV from the...
Al-Shaheer enters processed food industry
Karachi
In what seems like an effort to grab a slice of the largely untapped frozen food industry of Pakistan – which accounts...