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.
Historic collection by FBR[i]
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr Ikramul Haq The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has surpassed the third-time revised target of fiscal year (FY) 2020-2021 and for…
T-20 World Cup-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…
Rejoinder to ‘unconstitutional taxation by provinces’
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In response to our article [Unconstitutional taxation by provinces, Business Recorder, January 3, 2020], a letter was published on…
Perpetual quest for wealth
Huzaima Bukhari “Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed was once asked: what is affluence? He said: ‘Decreasing your wishes, and being satisfied with what is enough…
PTI’s manifesto: a betrayal of documents?
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and…
Navigating through economic landmines
Abdul Rauf Shakoori & Dr. Ikramul Haq Pakistan’s economy seems to be in a continuous struggle for revival. It has many structural challenges which needs…
Matrilineal or patrilineal?
Huzaima Bukhari “Matrilineal succession is the only thing that makes sense as far as I’m concerned, since you always know who the mother is, and…
Makeup or mask-up?
Huzaima Bukhari “It’s our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won’t…
Pakistan: Another FATF Assessment
Abdul Rauf Shakoori & Dr. Ikramul Haq President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), while speaking at the Fourth G20 Finance Ministers and Central…
Taxes, social services, gender & equality
Dr. Ikramul Haq The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), today [June 24, 2021] launched the Women’s Economic Empowerment Activity…
Compounding economic crisis of Pakistan
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Rising need of petroleum and its heavy taxation leaves the common man stripped of his earnings,…
Playing the religion card
Huzaima Bukhari “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”―Seneca Lucius Seneca Essentially…
Leaks & challenges
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The selective criteria of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in listing countries with strategic deficiencies…
Constitutionalism is the only remedy
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq “A judge is to apply the Constitution according to the principles intended by those who ratified the document”—Robert H Bork,…
Justice for labourers
Huzaima Bukhari “Give to the worker his wages before his sweat dries”―Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) iriam (Ibn-Majah) If it were not for labourers toiling in the…
Af-Pak & regional realignments
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The peace deal between the United States (US) and Taliban is turning into a nightmare for…
From Panama to Pandora Leaks!
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In The Panama Papers, the leaked data covered nearly 40 years, from the late 1970s throughout the end of…
The Pandora’s Box of Our Dirty Offshore Legacy
Dr. Ikramul Haq & Hassan Aslam Shad The Pandoras Box Based upon the most expansive leak of tax haven files in history, the investigation reveals…
