Austerity measures are being adopted to control government expenditures

Purchase of new vehicles, machineries, creation of new posts, unnecessary foreign trips banned

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IMF has demanded of the government to get $12 billion loan rolled over by next week to secure the bailout package

Memorandum states that the scheme will apply to all employees hired on a permanent basis from 1st July 2024 onwards

SIM cards registered against CNICs that expired before 2017 and have not been renewed are being blocked

FTO directs FBR to take action against officers who took coercive action against a taxpayer

Says government does not seem serious in reducing its expenditures

Finance ministry sets Rs37,000 as the minimum salary per month for all civil and contract employees from July 1, 2024.

Order of FTO came in case of multi-billion-rupee sales tax fraud through issuance of fake/flying sales tax invoices