Tax & Corporate Law Articles by Huzaima & Ikram

Huzaima & Ikram’s articles collect decades of published analysis on Pakistan’s tax and corporate law — income tax, sales tax, FBR reforms, budgets and constitutional questions — by Dr. Ikramul Haq, Huzaima Bukhari and Abdul Rauf Shakoori, including pieces first published in Pakistan’s leading newspapers.

The forbidden animal

Huzaima Bukhari “إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحْمَ الْخِنْزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ بِهِ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ “He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh…

Youth and political turmoil

Huzaima Bukhari “Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment”—Lionel Shriver (American journalist) Pakistan has recently witnessed another political debacle following…

FATF & Economy

Abdul Rauf Shakoori & Dr. Ikramul Haq After a week of political turmoil, Pakistan’s opposition parties, through a no-confidence resolution, successfully managed to remove Imran…

Roadmap to Self-Sustainability

Huzaima Bukhari & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Since its inception, Pakistan has been facing a series of challenges. Right after the mysterious death of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad…

New PM & reforms agenda

Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Pakistan needs all out fundamental structural reforms in all areas of governance. However, the most important…

Rising economic difficulties

Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori At present Pakistan is facing grim crises. On the constitutional front, the matter is sub judice…

Paradoxical ‘leaders’-Part 2

Huzaima Bukhari “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Simplicity is an attribute that has been…

Paradoxical ‘leaders’

Huzaima Bukhari “Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition”—Ricardo Muti When those who…

FATF & Real Estate Reforms

Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The real estate sector is an attractive sector for money launderers. Criminals who build their fortune…

Pakistan at 75: A sordid story

Huzaima Bukhari & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Resolved that it is the considered view of this session of the All-India Muslim League that no constitutional plan…

Pakistan at a crossroads

Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The continuous failures and inability of the incumbent coalition government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to handle…

Reflections in moral mirror!

Huzaima Bukhari “It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”—Noel Coward (Blithe Spirit) Morality has been perhaps…