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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s tax expenditure remained at 2.1 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), which is significantly lower than the global average of 4.0 percent. According to the Tax Expenditure ...

Slovakia’s government is continuing its efforts to reduce the budget deficit despite sluggish growth. But the risk of missing ...

In India, direct out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) by households is the main source of financing for health care. In an OOPE-based system, when a family member falls ill, we either dip into our savings ...

Govt plans to introduce biometric authentication for UPI payments, but what exactly is a digital payment system and why is it ...

The U.S. budget deficit shrank by $41 billion to $1.775 trillion in the 2025 fiscal year as an increase in revenue from ...

Rome’s readiness to use an EU accounting trick was signaled in a Ministry of Finance budget document issued this month.

Japanese firms slashed spending on plant and equipment by the most in a decade in the second quarter, the government said on Tuesday, suggesting the economy will take a protracted period to fully ...

The great magician Harry Houdini once said, “What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.” This is the philosophy ...

October 10 is World Mental Health Day. Increasing awareness must be matched with improving access to mental health services ...

The Council today endorsed Germany’s maximum net expenditure path for the next five years. It also activated the national escape clause for Germany under the stability and growth pact to facilitate ...

The MTRS sets an ambitious goal of raising the tax-to-Gross domestic product (GDP) ratio to 20 percent by FY 2026-27, which is meant to reverse a decade-long decline in Kenya’s tax-to-GDP ratio.