2. Definition
• Given by Government
• Financial aid or support to an economic sector
– Institution
– Business
– Individual
• Direct
– Cash grants
– Interest-free loans
• Indirect
– Tax Breaks
– Insurance
– Low-interest loans
– Depreciation write-offs
– Rent rebates
4. Production Subsidy
• Encourages suppliers to increase the output
• Production will increase at the same price
• Infant Industry Argument
• Automobile Industry
5. Consumption Subsidy
• Directly use by consumers
• Food Subsidy
• Water Subsidy
• Education
• Health
• Electricity and Gas
• Price go down and demand goes up
6. Exports Subsidy
• Assisting the exporters to export more
• Duty Drawback
• Exports Financing Scheme
• R&D subsidy
7. Employment subsidy
• Assistance to employer to increase more
employment to reduce unemployment
• Could be in the form of training subsidy
• Employ persons with disability
• Problem of wage seeking (illegally)
• UK-Employer Subsidy
• Australia-Wage Subsidy
8. Tax Subsidy
• Tax Breaks
• Exemptions – Charity
• In exports category whosoever spend R&D will
get 6 percent tax rebate
10. Normative Vs Positive
• Equity
• Support for Poors
• Rentseeking
• DWL – the cost of subsidy exceeds the benefits of
subsidy
– Lower efficiency, less competitive.
• Opportunity cost of subsidies – The amount spent
on subsidy could have been spent on other.
Metro Bus – Subsidy
13. Definition
• Subsidies, Grants and Transfers
• Financial Support by the Government
• 203 billion subsidies
• 370.7 billion grants and transfers
• Education 64 billion
14. Subsidies
Subsidy to WAPDA/PEPCO Budget
2013-14
Revised
2013-14
Budget
2014-15
Inter Disco Tariff Differential 165.1 245.1 150
Tariff Differential for Agri
Tubewells in Balochistan
3 3 1
Receivables from FATA 12 12 5
Exchange Rate Differentials
for USAIDs grant to GENCOs
0.1 0.1 0.1
15. Subsidies
Subsidy to KESC Budget
2013-14
Revised
2013-14
Budget
2014-15
KESC’s Tariff Differential 55 64 29
KESC’s payable to PSO and
PKGCL
- 0.317 -
Subsidy to USC Budget
2013-14
Revised
2013-14
Budget
2014-15
Ramzan Package 2 2 3
Sale of Sugar 4 4 4
16. Subsidies
Subsidy to PASSCO Budget
2013-14
Revised
2013-14
Budget
2014-15
Cost differential to sale of
wheat (Wheat Support Price)
4 4 4
Wheat Reserved Stock 5 2.5 4
17. Subsidies
Subsidy to Others Budget
2013-14
Revised
2013-14
Budget
2014-15
Oil Refineries and OMCs 4 - 2
Fauji Fertilzer Bin Qasim Ltd 0.231 - -
Sale of wheat in Fata 0.283 0.283 0.293
Sale of Wheat in Gilgit-
Baltistan
0.815 0.815 0.850
Sale of Salt in GB 5 5 5
18. Grants and Transfers
• Special Grants to Provinces
• Railways
• ZTBL loans
• National Internship Program
• Aid to GB and AJK
• Subsidy for markup on housing loans
19. Development Expenditure Outside
PSDP Program
Ee loan, Budget
2013-14
Revised
2013-14
Budget
2014-15
BISP 75 70.28 97.15
PM schemes
Interest free loan, Business
loan, fee reimbursement,
youth training scheme, etc
25 - 21
Import of urea Fertilizer 30 30 25
20. …!
• Crop loan insurance scheme
• Pakistan Development Fund
• SME Business Support Fund
• Relief, Rehab, Reconstruction and Security of
IDPs
• PPAF
• Textile Policy
• etc