The proposed research will cover the following area: INTRODUCTION The issues and problems relating to reforming the tax system in Pakistan can only be tackled through a professional and scientific approach. Inter alia, the most important and urgent task is to analyse causes for inefficiency and corruption rampant in all the tax departments and to...Read More

By Dr. Ikramul Haq* Tinkering with direct and indirect tax laws is becoming increasingly common. Every government in Pakistan, in recent years, made tall claims about reforming the tax system. The present Government, soon after taking over, also constituted an Expert Group (sic) to suggest changes in tax system that had become necessary in the...Read More

By  Dr. Ikramul Haq Dr. Ikramul Haq, a leading international tax counsel, is a well-known author specialising in international tax, press, intellectual property, corporate and constitutional law. Dr. Ikram is Chief Partner of Lahore Law Associates (fax: +92 42 7226953, e-mail: irm@brain.net.pk). He is also a member of the visiting faculty of the Institute of...Read More

Dr. Ikramul Haq There are about 1.9 million cases pending in the country before all the courts put together and to handle such a huge number of cases there are only about 3000 Judges and Magistrates available from top to bottom. Successive governments have failed to suitably increase the number of Judges and Magistrates on...Read More

By Dr. Ikramul Haq[*] Pakistan, caught in a deadly debt trap, is struggling hard to get rid of external loans of 35 billion US$. There is a little hope to come out of this crisis or to stop looking towards IMF, World Bank, Paris Club, London Club and ADB in a near future. There are...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The fiscal management in the wake of 18th Constitutional Amendment [the “18th Amendment”] has been posing serious challenges for all. The problems diagnosed by experts are ambiguity over taxation rights between federation and its units, weak administrative structures, lack of political will and apparatuses to enforce devolved subjects/laws, issues...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq After taking oath on December 31, 2016 as 25th Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Mian Saqib Nisar, repeatedly stressed the need for speedy justice. However, near to his retirement (January 17, 2019), things have further deteriorated, instead of improving. According to data available on the website of Law and...Read More

By Dr. Ikramul Haq Dr. Ikramul Haq, a leading international tax counsel, is a well-known author specialising in international tax, press, intellectual property, corporate and constitutional law. Dr. Ikram is Chief Partner of Lahore Law Associates (fax: +92 42 7226953, e-mail: irm@brain.net.pk; website: http://www.paktax.com.pk). He is also a member of the visiting faculty of the...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine-very healing”— Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons, an English-Irish actor and model. Born in 1985 Having written a lot of serious stuff I thought it was time to experiment with some humour and satire. After all, as aptly...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In a country where development outlay is cut drastically every year and an indomitable State Oligarchy enjoys unprecedented tax-free perquisites and perks at the expense of taxpayers, what can one expect other than fiscal chaos and double talk about loyalty to state. The self-styled defenders of “national cause” and...Read More