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  "textContent": "Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb will present the federal budget for the next fiscal year (FY26-27) in the National Assembly on Friday, an adviser to the minister has confirmed.\n\nAdviser to the Finance Minister Khurram Schehzad shared the revised budget schedule in a post on X.\n\nHe added that the Pakistan Economic Survey for the outgoing FY25-26 will be launched at 2:20pm tomorrow (Thursday) by Aurangzeb.\n\n> Budget sessions of the National Assembly and Senate have already been summoned by President Asif Ali Zardari.\n\nThe National Economic Council (NEC), the highest economic decision-making forum of the federation, met earlier on Wednesday to finalise federal and provincial development plans ahead of the budget presentation.\n\nPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who chaired the meeting, said the Centre held consultations with the provinces on all matters “with extreme seriousness, and we made decisions in the best interest of Pakistan”.\n\nThe NEC finally met after being delayed three times, as negotiations had continued over the freezing of provincial shares in the federal divisible pool under the National Finance Commission (NFC) award.\n\nThe budget presentation in the parliament had earlier been set for June 10.\n\nThe federal government, its coalition partners and provincial governments had been struggling to reach a consensus over the Centre’s demand for more than Rs1 trillion for strategic needs.\n\nHowever, the ruling PML-N and its major ally, the PPP, on Monday reached a consensus on the broad framework of the federal budget.\n\nThey reached a broad agreement on cutting development and other expenditures at all tiers of the federation to cover around Rs800 billion revenue shortfall this year and jointly create similar, but higher, fiscal space next year for additional “strategic needs”.\n\nUnder the agreement, provincial shares from the federal divisible pool would stay frozen at the current fiscal year’s position. Any increase in the targeted revenue next year on top of the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) collection in the current year would be retained by the Centre, informed sources said.\n\nThe sources said the additional amount being discussed for next year to be given up by the provinces was not fixed but dynamic, depending on FBR revenue collection, and could range anywhere between Rs1.3tr and Rs1.7tr.\n\nInterestingly, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were not part of the deal so far.\n\nUnder tight International Monetary Fund (IMF) oversight, the government has trimmed allocations for most sectors in the next federal development programme to create additional fiscal space for the PML-N’s trademark national highways, a new Rs87 billion share for coalition partners and a Rs70bn allocation for ruling party lawmakers’ schemes.\n\nYet, the government has unveiled a record national development programme of Rs4.715tr.\n\nThe overall deve­l­opment portfolio comprises the largest share of provincial annual development plans (ADPs) at Rs3.138tr (up 9.6pc), followed by the federal Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) of Rs1.126tr, up 12.6pc from the current year, and Rs451bn from state-owned enterprises (SOEs), up 27pc from Rs355bn in the current fiscal year.\n\nPM Shehbaz has said that the government was taking measures to bring the informal economy into the tax net.\n\nThe government last week unveiled the ‘Fixed Tax Asaan Scheme’ to bring small traders and shopkeepers into the tax net, with an annual turnover of up to Rs200 million.\n\nThe government is also considering relaxing the remittance cap in the upcoming budget as overseas Pakistanis in several countries face difficulties in protecting their investments and liquid assets abroad, according to sources in the financial industry.",
  "title": "Finance Minister Aurangzeb to present budget for FY2026-27 on June 12"
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