Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The incumbent coalition government is all set to present the federal budget for the fiscal year 2022-23, with an estimated outlay of over Rs9 trillion, on June 10 (Friday).

The National Assembly is already in session where the budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 would be presented by Finance Minister, Miftah Ismail official sources said.

The budget had been formulated while considering the existing challenges being faced by the economy on domestic and international fronts. Hence, mitigating people’s sufferings, transforming the agriculture sector, promoting Information Technology (IT), and boosting industrial and bolstering businesses would be the main focus of the document, sources said.

The government is firmly committed to presenting a pro-people, business-friendly and progressive Federal Budget for FY 2022-23. It will pursue policies aimed at fiscal consolidation to contain the budget deficit.

In addition to fiscal management, revenue mobilization, measures for economic stabilization and growth, reduction in non-development expenditures; boosting exports job creation and people-friendly policies for the socio-economic prosperity of the country would feature in the budget.

It would also focus on social sector development besides introducing reforms for improving governance and boosting the private sector for investment.

On the revenue side, the government would introduce measures for bringing improvements in the system of tax collection, broadening the tax base, and facilitating taxpayers.

Keeping in view the robust growth of revenues during the current fiscal year (2021-22), the government is likely to set the revenue collection target at over Rs.7 trillion for the fiscal year 20222-23.

The budget is being prepared in close coordination between all departments and ministries involved in budget-related events.

Sources said the preparations for the announcement of the federal budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 continued in full swing in accordance with the prescribed timelines.

The budget was being prepared in close coordination between all departments and ministries involved in budget-related events including the presentation of the budget in the Parliament and the launching of the Economic Survey, they added.