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Public finance

How the state raises and spends money. About 630 series, mostly annual by fiscal year (July-June, dated to 30 June), from the SBP.

Module public-finance
Frequency Annual (a few half-yearly)
Endpoint /v1/series/{id}; discover with /v1/catalog?module=public-finance&q=…

Key series

Id What it is History
fiscal.federal_total_revenue_receipts Federal government total revenue receipts FY2016 →
fiscal.federal_govt_total_expenditure_net_lending Federal total expenditure and net lending FY2000 →
fiscal.consolidated_provincial_total_revenue All provinces, total revenue FY1988 →
fiscal.overall_fiscal_balance_punjab · _sindh · _kpk · _baluchistan Provincial fiscal balances FY2011 →
fiscal.fbr_direct_taxes_federal FBR direct taxes FY2016 →
fiscal.fbr_direct_tax · fiscal.fbr_customs_duty · fiscal.fbr_excise_duty FBR collection by tax type, half-yearly 2001 → 2022

Search q=sales tax, q=debt servicing, q=development expenditure, q=subsidies and so on for the full breakdown. Many line items have an older vintage (FY1979-2010) under a similar name.

curl "https://api.pakdatahub.com/v1/search?q=fbr&module=public-finance&limit=20"

Latency: annual fiscal data is published with a lag, so the newest year is usually 12-18 months old.

Use cases: fiscal-stance analysis, tax-take modelling, federal-vs-provincial comparisons, debt-sustainability inputs.

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