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The Economic Survey of Pakistan 2023-24, a pre-budget document containing the details of major socio-economic achievements during the outgoing fiscal year, is set to be launched today (Tuesday).

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb will present the survey in the National Assembly at 5pm, a statement issued by the finance ministry said on Monday.

The survey comes ahead of the federal budget for the fiscal year 2024-25, which is slated to be presented on June 12 (Wednesday).

The coalition government led by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is expected to lay out ambitious fiscal targets in the Budget 2024-25 that will help strengthen its case for a new bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), officials and analysts said.

Conceding severe financial constraints and cutting down on the development funding under the IMF programme, the Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) has recommended Rs1,221 billion for the development programme at the federal level for the financial year 2024-25.

It would be the first budget to be presented by the incumbent government.

As Pakistan strives to secure a loan programme to avert a default in a slow-paced economy, the global lender has asked the country to raise provincial taxes, especially on agriculture, sales tax on services and property tax.

The country is in talks with the IMF for a loan estimated to be anything between $6 billion to $8 billion to avert a default for an economy that is growing at the slowest pace in the region.

"The budget holds critical significance for Pakistan's IMF programme and must close the gap between our revenue collection and total expenditure; it is thus likely to be contractionary," said Ali Hasanain, associate professor of economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Pakistan narrowly averted a default last summer thanks to a short-term IMF bailout of $3 billion over nine months.

While its fiscal and external deficits have been brought under control, it came at the expense of a sharp drop in growth and industrial activity as well as high inflation, which averaged close to 30% in the last financial year and 24.52% over the last 11 months.



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