{"id":71653,"date":"2025-05-25T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:46:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-05-25T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:46:04","slug":"gst-largest-marginal-contributor-to-rising-poverty-in-pakistan-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=71653","title":{"rendered":"GST largest marginal contributor to rising poverty in Pakistan: World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST largest marginal contributor to rising poverty in Pakistan: World Bank<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 25-5-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Islamabad, May 25 (PTI) The General Sales Tax has the largest marginal contribution to the rise of poverty while a monthly cash transfer programme to the poorest families has the largest positive impact on inequality reduction in Pakistan, a World Bank study has said.<br \/>\n \u2018The Effects of Taxes and Transfers on Inequality and Poverty in Pakistan\u2019 reports that the General Sales Tax (GST) payments account for over 7 per cent households\u2019 pre-tax expenditure, which leads to further impoverishment among poor and vulnerable households.<br \/>\n Dawn reported on Sunday quoting the World Bank (WB) study that estimations of the marginal contr<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=44684\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>n should improve its domestic revenue mobilisation and public expenditure efficiency to generate greater fiscal space. The additional fiscal space should be prioritised to expand social expenditure and targetted transfers and to improve fiscal equity.<br \/>\n The report recommends expenditure reforms to improve the accessibility and quality of public health and education services in Pakistan, which could have long-term impacts in terms of poverty and inequality reduction.<br \/>\n It also finds faults with the taxation system of the country, which it claimed emphasises revenue collection from \u201cmore frequently impoverishing indirect taxes as well as regressive and inefficient subsidy expenditures\u201d while de-prioritising progressive direct taxation.\n <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=44684\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST largest marginal contributor to rising poverty in Pakistan: World BankGSTDated:- 25-5-2025PTIIslamabad, May 25 (PTI) The General Sales Tax has the largest marginal contribution to the rise of poverty while a monthly cash transfer programme to the poor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}