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{{Infobox government budget
| title = Federal Budget
| year = 2018–19
| country = Pakistan
| previous_budget = 2017–18 Pakistan federal budget
| previous_year = 2017–18
| next_budget = 2019–20 Pakistan federal budget
| next_year = 2019–20
| image = File:State emblem of Pakistan.svg
| imagesize = 150px
| caption =
| submitter =
| submitted_to =
| date_submitted =
| presented = 28 April 2018
| passed =
| parliament = [[National Assembly of Pakistan]]
| party = [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]]
| minister = [[Miftah Ismail]]
| treasurer = [[Ministry of Finance (Pakistan)|Ministry of Finance]]
| chancellor =
| Total_Revenue = {{increase}} {{PKRConvert|5.159|t}}
| Total_Expenditures = {{increase}} {{PKRConvert|5.932|t}}
| spending =
| tax_cut =
| debt_payment = {{increase}} {{PKRConvert|2.221|t}}
| surplus =
| deficit = {{increasenegative}} 4.9%
| debt =
| gdp =
| bill =
| bill_link =
| url = [http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/Budget_in_Brief_2018_19.pdf Budget Brief]
}}

The '''Federal budget 2018–19''' is the [[Government budget|federal budget]] of [[Pakistan]] for the [[fiscal year]] beginning from 1 July 2018 and ending on 30 June 2019.<ref name="TN">{{cite news|title=Here is all you want to know about Budget 2018-19|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/310231-here-is-all-you-want-to-know-about-budget-2018-19|accessdate=9 September 2018|work=[[The News International]]|date=28 April 2018}}</ref> The budget was presented by finance minister [[Miftah Ismail]] on 28 April 2018, just months before the [[2018 Pakistani general election|general elections]] scheduled in the country for the next government.<ref name="TN"/>

The budget announced several measures; including an allocation Rs. 1,100 billion for defence expenditures; a ten percent hike in salaries and pensions of civil and military employees; a [[health tax]] enforced on tobacco and import taxes on cell phones; around Rs. 2.22 trillion were to be used for [[Government debt|debt servicing]]; changes were made to the progressive taxation system, with no taxes to be deducted on people with annual incomes of up to Rs. 400,000; Rs. 25 billion were allocated for the health and medical sector under the Public Sector Development Programme, which would include several new projects;<ref name="TN"/> tax cuts were announced for the agriculture and dairy farming sectors; another Rs. 2.6 billion were announced for the [[National Accountability Bureau]], which include employee expenses; all provinces were to get a total of Rs. 2.59 trillion as part of their share in the federal revenues; Rs. 18.2 billion would be spent on the fencing of the [[Afghanistan–Pakistan barrier]] on the border;<ref name="TN"/> Rs. 130 billion worth of additional levies were slapped on petroleum products;<ref name="TN"/> and finally, smaller expenses were announced for setting up a media development and television monitoring system. The budgets for the President and Prime Ministerial residences, borne out of tax-payers funds, had also risen notably.<ref name="TN"/>

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