Yet another tax amnesty scheme!
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq It is disturbing to hear that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is contemplating yet another tax amnesty scheme…
Tax amnesty for whom?
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Transparency International Pakistan (TIP), in a letter, has prayed to “the Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan to take…
Remembering Peshawar tragedy
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq It is tragic that even after lapse of four years, the state machinery has failed to unveil the real…
Time up for fiscal integration
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr Ikramul Haq and Dr Muhammad Babar Chohan The biggest challenge faced by our tax system at national and provincial levels is perpetuation…
Budget Proposals 2019-2020
Documentation/Broadening of tax base/raising number of filers/ According to 2017 census, our population is 207.77 million [provisional]. The dependent population of children under the age…
Shrinking return filers
Dr. Ikramul Haq Total income tax returns filed till the many times extended date [December 17, 2018] for tax year 2018 were 1,483,020 as compared…
Benazir Bhutto: victim of ‘New Great Game’
December 27, 2018 marks the eleventh death anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the great visionary leader, who resisted with great courage the agenda of…
9/11: War of economic interests
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq On September 9, 2012, eleven years ago, a gruesome and heinous crime against humanity was committed in New York—wanton…