CBR needs to reprioritize tax audit
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqSince the promulgation of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, the Central Board of Revenue (CBR, from 15th September to be renamed FBR) has miserably failed to prioritise its audit resources to focus on key areas of…
Destroying tax appellate system
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqThe Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar, in the Finance Bill 2014, ignored the demand that tax appellate system should be made independent, free from the administrative controls as directed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Even…
Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue
Undesirable changes proposed vide Finance Bill, 2012Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqThe Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 provides for the scheme of levy of income tax, tax administration machinery and mechanisms for redressing taxpayers’ grievances. The right of appeal against orders…
ATAIC Islamabad Conference
Sharia Taxation: Dilemma & Crisis of Muslim WorldHuzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Deliberations of Third Technical Conference of the Association of Tax Authorities of Islamic Countries (ATAIC) in Islamabad (November 22-25), it is officially claimed by our Central Board…
Astringent legacy of May 12
HUZAIMA BUKHARI & DR. IKRAMUL HAQMay 12 of 2007 and 2008 will be remembered in Pakistani history as a tragic and lamentable day—a dictator with the connivance and support of certain forces managed to frustrate the aspiration of people to…
Astringent legacy of May 12Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq
May 12 of 2007 and 2008 will be remembered in Pakistani history as a tragic and lamentable day—a dictator with the connivance and support of certain forces managed to frustrate the aspiration of people to see their homeland a place…
Centre-provinces harmony
Need for judicious assignment of taxesHuzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqThere is something fundamentally wrong with Pakistan’s constitutional structure of distribution of taxing powers between the federation and the federating units. The Centre has always usurped the right of the…
Assets beyond means
Dr. Ikramul HaqMian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, ousted/disqualified ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, seriously or in a light vein, in a private gathering, reportedly said: “Even if my assets do not commensurate with my sources, it is none of your concern”. Coming…
How Pakistan can become Asian Tiger
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqThe repeated claims in the past by Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, influential ministers of the ruling PML(N) government that “Pakistan will be the next “Asian Tiger” were never taken seriously by ordinary Pakistanis…