With over 90 per cent of the respondents of the annual budget survey that runs on Dawn.com every year during the budget belonging to the salaried class, the survey indicates what the third-largest taxpayer group wants. Arguably, it is the salaried class that has been hit the hardest in recent years, with inflation eating away at eroded incomes with no place to hide from the barrage of taxes. This year, we collected data to answer some of the more pertinent questions surrounding the upcoming budget and their own financial wellbeing in the past year.

Is Pakistan ready for a growth-forward budget, or should it continue to play a guarded fiscal game?

While it may be easy to throw aside tight-fisted austerity measures and opt for an expansionary budget, wage earners understand the necessity of the stabilisation measures and the pitfalls of the doomed

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