ISLAMABAD:
President Asif Zardari has signed the Finance Bill 2025, giving effect to the budget for fiscal 2025-26 from Tuesday, July 1, according to a gazette notification issued here.
As per the notification dated June 29, the Finance Act 2025 received the president’s assent on June 27. On Thursday, the National Assembly approved the Rs17.6 trillion budget along with Rs463 billion new taxes.
The House approved the second budget of the government of PM Shehbaz Sharif with a comfortable majority. During a voting on one clause, the coalition government mustered the support of 201 members of the NA as against 57 votes of the opposition parties.
