Promise Rs4.1tr revenue boost by lowering taxes, removing exemptions

Rs932 billion or 27% of the total national outlay will be funded by taking foreign loans

Now there is a proposal to increase the number of beneficiaries in the range 9.6 million to 9.7 million people

Competing forces stand in way of reducing cost of doing business

Disagreement persists over ‘irrational demand’ for high taxes on salaried class

Chief ministers of all four provinces are also the constitutional members of the NEC

Proposal has potential to add hundreds of billions of rupees to tax receipts

Higher amount of lending comes with tougher conditions

Promulgates ordinance that empowers govt to remove independent directors of SOEs

IMF demands signing National Fiscal Pact and further electricity price hikes