March 22, 2025
Additional tax revenues to be spent on welfare projects: PM Shehbaz
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said the additional tax collection will be spent on health, education, and other public welfare projects. He said this in a statement in response to the Lahore High Court’s decision of dismissing the stay order on windfall tax on banks’ additional income, benefiting the national treasury by 11.5 billion rupees, and a total of 34.5 billion rupees over the last month. The Prime Minister, taking notice of the stay order cases regarding the windfall tax imposed on banks’ additional income under the Finance Act 2023, had directed the Minister of Law, Minister of Finance, Attorney



