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Episode 202 - Budget Inflicts More Pain on Citizens
48 minutes Posted Jun 22, 2024 at 2:06 pm.
Introduction
Budget takeaways
Pension reforms
Power subsidies
Inflation and salaried class
Digitization and taxes
Why are cash handouts criticized?
Electricity tariffs for industry
Heartland strategy and its issues
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Shehbaz Sharif’s government has put forward a new budget for the upcoming fiscal year, setting off a debate on more taxes, government spending, and economic reforms. As parliament debates the budget, some things may change about the exact numbers. But to discuss what has been put on the table, Uzair spoke to Ammar H. Khan about what this budget signals and why it pursues a “deepening” of the tax net, as opposed to a widening.
We also talked about the energy sector and why prices are being reduced for industrial consumers of electricity, as well as Ammar’s views on what he calls the heartland strategy.
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