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PESHAWAR, July 1 Asia Pulse - North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Finance Minister Farid Rehman on Friday presented the provincial government's Rs46.8 billion (US$781.56 million) revenue receipts budget for the 2002-03 financial year, showing a projected budgetary deficit of more than Rs3 billion.
The total revenue expenditure has been estimated at over Rs48.56 billion, appearing to be Rs1.796 billion over and above the Rs46.767 billion revenue receipts.
In addition to that, Rs1.263 billion deficit has been projected to be accrued as a result of an impending gap between the total current capital receipts and current capital expenditure reflected at Rs850 million and Rs2.113 billion, respectively.
However, in actual fact the budgetary deficit appears to be well over Rs12.9 billion, much greater the Rs3.1 billion deficit reflected by the provincial government in the budget document.
The Rs12.9 billion in-built budgetary deficit would accrue as the government has projected the net hydel profit share of the province for the next financial year at higher side in accordance with the 1990 A.G.N. Kazi formula.
But the budget document clearly shows a likely shortfall of Rs9.9 billion under the head of net hydel profit share, bringing the total budgetary deficit to over Rs12.9 billion.
The budget contains a wide-ranging provincial ...
Source: HighBeam Research, NO NEW TAX IN BUDGET OF PAKISTAN'S NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE.