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.

Huzaima Bukhari

“No organization can stay uncorrupt for long, be it a political party, a religious institution or a charity foundation – sooner or later the instinctual…

Pakistan: ML/CFT challenges in trade

Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq Trade is used as an ally for money laundering by misdeclarations of goods, under-invoicing and over-invoicing—Justice Ayesha Malik, paper read…

FATF, Pakistan & TBML

Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori There are three main methods by which criminal organisations and terrorist financiers move money for the…

Cacophonic leadership!

Huzaima Bukhari “Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own”—Roy T Bennett The…

Knowledge sans wisdom

Huzaima Bukhari “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all…

FATF & collective failure

Dr Ikramul Haq It is shocking that only two political parties filed income tax returns for tax year 2020 out of 27 registered with FBR…

 Budgets & elitist structures

Huzaima Bukhari Dr. Ikramul Haq All annual budgets of federal and provincial governments—civil or military—for the last four decades, especially tax proposals through Finance Bills,…

Our society’s dilemma

Huzaima Bukhari “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is…

Art: coarseness or culture?

Huzaima Bukhari “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”—Michelangelo Although the biological needs of humans reduce them to the…