Provincial performance to come under spotlight
Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal Photo: Radio Pakistan
As the maiden meeting of the National Finance Commission is set to put a spotlight on performance of provinces, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in particular, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has proposed multiple options to redistribute resources that would benefit the Centre and smaller federating units.
Despite giving more weight to the variables that strengthen the fiscal position of the smaller provinces, the share of K-P would increase from 1% to 3% in the range of 15.7% to 17.1%, showed the details of the proposals being submitted to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The K-P government is claiming that its share should go up by 6% to nearly 20% after the merger of erstwhile tribal districts.
According to these options, the federal government should upfront cut 4.7% to 6% of the undistributed divisible pool on account of various expenses and then distribute the 57.5% of the remaining taxe
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