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Dear Editor
I hope you will like the Photo Feature. Kindly ask your photographers to have a few snaps as suggested in the write up. I suggest the following captions for photographs that are also clues for the photographers what to shoot:Huddled…
Income Tax Ordinance 2001
Time to do away with itDr. Ikramul HaqDr. 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:…
The real face of terrorism
Dr Ikramul Haq[*]Before one tries to understand the recent US military and propaganda outbursts against the Afghan Mujahideen [holy warriors], one must turn one’s mental clock back a decade or so, and recollect the legacy of the last Bush to…
Income Tax Ordinance 2001:A fait accompli
Dr. Ikramul Haq[*]The failure to act prudently creates certain things as fait accompli in a nation’s life. The Income Tax Ordinance 2001, which is going to be imposed upon us before 26 September 2001, on the dictates of the International…
IMF Tranche: Bailout or Deathblow
By Dr Ikramul HaqDr. 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:…
Fiscal deficit: Mother of all ills
ByDr. Ikramul Haq*The persistent failure of our financial managers and tax collectors to overcome fiscal deficit and remove fiscal imbalances has created a situation where the very economic survival of the country is at stake. Our economic survival now lies…
FINANCE ORDINANCE, 2001
Analysis of Amendments in Income Tax LawByDr. Ikramul Haq[*]The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has three mottos: passion for routine, resistance for change and promotion of mediocrity. The changes made in the different tax enactments through the Finance Ordinance 2001…
No Effort To Avoid Assessee-Collector Contact(s)
Dr. Ikramul Haq[*]There has been much talk of reducing or even eliminating the contact between the tax payers and the tax collectors to overcome the deep-rooted corruption rampant in the tax machinery. The worthy Finance Minister, on more than one…