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 Nuisance of Inflation
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The gulf between the income of a common man and prices of necessities of life is…
Stripped and abused!
Huzaima Bukhari “Men don’t sexually assault women because they are lustful; they do it because they want to dominate, humiliate and abuse women. They do…
No one be judge in his own cause!
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In Karachi one Additional Commissioner in an order passed under section 122(5A) of the Income Tax Ordinance 2001…
Documenting economy through financial inclusion
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori To achieve financial inclusion-related objectives National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) was launched by Pakistan in May…
Improving voluntary tax compliance
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Inland Revenue is here to ensure that everyone understands and receives what they are entitled to and understands…
State—a moral person?
Huzaima Bukhari “When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned”―Herbert Hoover When Joseph Conrad said that…
Deteriorating economic conditions
Abdul Rauf Shakoori & Dr. Ikramul Haq As per statistics released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Pakistan’s economy posted a growth of 3.9%…
Amendment in FATF Recommendation 23
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Recommendation 18 of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) requires that financial institutions should implement programmes…
Fearful of fear
Huzaima Bukhari “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of…
Regulating Emerging Technologies
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The technological landscape has changed massively in the last few years and this has also transformed…
Playing political yoyo
Huzaima Bukhari “If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you’ll have to…
Ordinary citizens, Children of a Lesser God
Huzaima Bukhari & Abdul Rauf Shakoori “The people before you were destroyed because they used to inflict legal punishments on the poor and forgive the…
New tax model for prosperity
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq There is hardly any doubt about the huge tax gap in Pakistan that is about 70% of the…
Tax gap & bad policy measures
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq There is hardly any doubt about huge tax gap in Pakistan. It is not only because of weaknesses…
Sports & sportsmanship
Huzaima Bukhari “Sports inculcate something in you that no institution, family or friendship can. A quality that eventually emanate(s) from you, something called Sportsmanship”―Sandeep Sahajpal…
SBP: Autonomy through Heteronomy
Dr. Ikramul Haq On the economic front, the incumbent coalition government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) believes that all its failures are due to the current…
Institutional Challenges
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The majestic architecture of a state stands with the support of three main pillars, namely, Legislature,…
