The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Friday said the Finance Bill 2025 was still being discussed in the National Assembly (NA) and among various business circles. The FBR’s statement comes as “a number of news stories in the digital and print media give the impression that some of the amendments introduced in the finance
The federal government’s Finance Bill 2025 has come under criticism from policy analysts and youth advocates for “failing to include dedicated programmes or fiscal incentives” targeting Pakistan’s youth, despite young people comprising over 60 percent of the population. The Finance Bill, which outlines the government’s taxation and spending priorities for the fiscal year 2025–26, contains
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has unveiled the federal budget for fiscal year 2025-26, laying stress on the government’s focus on economic stability and growth. In his budget speech in the National Assembly marred by the opposition’s pandemonium on Tuesday, Aurangzeb outlined key economic achievements, saying that remittances have reached $31.2billion, with projections to
The chairman of the Senate standing committee on finance and revenue, former finance minister Senator Saleem Mandviwalla, said on Tuesday that the upcoming budget will further burden the people due to an increase in the petroleum levy. He was also critical of the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) performance, especially in terms of the Tajir