{"id":11067,"date":"2026-08-14T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=11067"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:45:04","slug":"pakistan-collected-rs1-567-trillion-in-petroleum-levy-in-fy2025-26-finance-ministry-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=11067","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan collected Rs1.567 trillion in petroleum levy in FY2025-26: Finance ministry data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan collected Rs1.567 trillion in petroleum levy during the fiscal year 2025-26, exceeding the budgeted target of Rs1.468 trillion by Rs99 billion, according to data released by the Ministry of Finance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Finance Ministry said the government\u2019s total tax and non-tax revenue stood at Rs19.773 trillion during the last fiscal year. Meanwhile, the primary balance reached a surplus of Rs3.634 trillion, exceeding the target set under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. The surplus was attributed to lower expenditures and higher petroleum levy collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan recorded a budget deficit of Rs4.763 trillion during FY2025-26. During the year, the government raised a total of Rs3.313 trillion in borrowing, including Rs2.135 trillion from domestic sources, while net external financing stood at Rs1.113 trillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debt servicing remained a major component of government expenditure, with Rs6.947 trillion spent on interest payments. Of this amount, Rs6.040 trillion was paid on domestic debt and Rs917 billion on external debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award, the provinces received Rs7.668 trillion during FY2025-26, compared with Rs6.854 trillion in FY2024-25. Punjab received the largest share at Rs3.370 trillion, followed by Sindh with Rs1.897 trillion, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with Rs1.240 trillion and Balochistan with Rs736 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All four provinces reported budget surpluses during the year. Punjab recorded a surplus of Rs914 billion, Sindh Rs349 billion, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rs164 billion and Balochistan Rs20 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Finance Ministry said the same economic indicators would be presented to the IMF during the fifth economic review scheduled for next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The central bank\u2019s profit stood at Rs2.428 trillion during the fiscal year, while defence expenditure amounted to Rs2.587 trillion. Pension-related spending was recorded at Rs1.001 trillion, while Rs1.013 trillion was spent on subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall government expenditure stood at Rs23.087 trillion during FY2025-26, equivalent to 18.2% of GDP. This was lower than the 21.4% recorded in FY2024-25 and 19.5% in FY2023-24, according to the Finance Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan collected Rs1.567 trillion in petroleum levy during the fiscal year 2025-26, exceeding the budgeted target of Rs1.468 trillion by Rs99 billion, according to..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Capture-2026-08-14T164448.843.jpg",1023,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Capture-2026-08-14T164448.843-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Capture-2026-08-14T164448.843-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Capture-2026-08-14T164448.843-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Capture-2026-08-14T164448.843.jpg",1023,576,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Capture-2026-08-14T164448.843.jpg",1023,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Capture-2026-08-14T164448.843.jpg",1023,576,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}