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.
Budget 2021: Taxes, Inflation, Growth & IMF
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The biggest challenge on tax mobilisation front faced by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is bridging monstrous tax gap…
Pakistan, IMF & “debtocracy”
Dr Ikramul Haq A poor country [Pakistan] struggling to meet the basic needs of its people, under the pressure of the pandemic its creditors are…
Budget 2021
Out of box solutions or IMF agenda? Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The fourth Finance Minister Shaukat Fayaz Ahmed Tarin of the coalition government…
Beyond biases
Huzaima Bukhari “It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias”— Criss Jami, Killosophy A lot can be derived…
Irrational taxation & high inflation
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr Ikramul Haq The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), in a Press release issued on May 1, 2021, claimed collection of net…
Fiscal challenges before Shaukat Tarin
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The coalition Government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is facing grim challenges on the fiscal front as Summary of Consolidated…
Budget 2021 & need for federalised tax apparatus
Dr. Ikramul Haq “A comprehensive strategy has been formulated to shift the gear and move to higher economic growth. I do not believe in increase in…
Tax proposals for Budget 2021
Growth, broad base & low-rate taxes Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Syed Muhammad Ijaz “A comprehensive strategy has been formulated to shift the gear…
Averting fiscal disaster
Dr. Ikramul Haq The coalition Government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is facing fiscal disaster as evident from Summary of Consolidated Federal and Provincial Fiscal Operations,…
I.A. Rehman: A non-conformist humanitarian!
Huzaima Bukhari “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”—Jim Morrison On an oppressive August day in 1986 on shifting from Karachi to Lahore, when my…
Determination of fair sales tax base
Dr. Ikramul Haq In the last article, Determining fair income-tax base, Daily Times, April 12, 2021, an effort was made to determine fair income-tax base.…
Self-respect: A nation’s pride
Huzaima Bukhari “Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect”—Eric Hoffer Way back in the 1960s, during our primary school…
Towards federalised tax apparatus
Dr. Ikramul Haq The provinces must participate in devising a national tax policy and collection apparatus as their share under 7th National Finance (NFC) Award…
Weeding out ‘deadwood’
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr Ikramul Haq According to a news story, the coalition government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has recently convened a meeting to consider…
Weeding out deadwood from FBR
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr Ikramul Haq According to a news story, the coalition government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has recently convened a meeting to consider…
Agenda for reforms, growth & welfare
Dr. Ikramul Haq The fragmented tax administration and complex tax codes are one of the reasons for low collection, sluggish growth due to heavy cost…
Self-respect: A nation’s pride
Huzaima Bukhari “Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect”—Eric Hoffer Way back in the 1960s, during our primary school…
Self-respect: A nation’s pride
Huzaima Bukhari “Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect”—Eric Hoffer Way back in the 1960s, during our primary school…
