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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…