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.
Simplification of taxes for growth—II
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has been reminded in these columns time and again that no agenda for…
Pakistan Day’s Resolve
Dr. Ikramul Haq The resolution of March 23, 1940 paved the way for a separate homeland for the Muslims of India after a long-drawn struggle…
Reflections on 81st Pakistan Day
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Lahore Resolution of March 23, 1940, widely believed to have paved the way for a separate homeland for…
Simplification of taxes for growth—I
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The biggest challenge on tax mobilisation front faced by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is bridging monstrous tax gap…
FBR and tax-defiant political parties
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…
Littering: Our national character
Huzaima Bukhari “I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour”―Bill Bryson An interesting video came up on social groups where one…
Civil governments, ‘Ordinance’ factories
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “Pakistan affirmed its commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by adopting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as…
Judges and accountability
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “The live coverage of court proceeding will not benefit me but the people of Pakistan. The live broadcast of…
Elections, corruption & voters
Dr. Ikramul Haq “The usefulness and the mandate of….an elected body under the Constitution have been defeated by continuous and widespread corruption including misapplication of…
Recouping tax losses judiciously
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “Judicial overreach is when the judiciary starts interfering with the proper functioning of the legislative or executive organs of…
FATF: FBR’s challenges
Dr. Ikramul Haq In June 2021, Pakistan is going to face yet another review of its remaining compliance of three action items, out of total…
Variety is spice of life
Huzaima Bukhari “The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety”― Felix Mendelssohn If the whole world were to follow the same lifestyle—same language, same…
fatf grey listing caused ‘$38b losses’: myth or reality
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori As a result of the recently concluded meeting of FATF in February 2021, Pakistan is destined…
Tribute to womanhood
Huzaima Bukhari “Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Al-Mighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and…
FBR, tax potential & enforcement
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr Ikramul Haq The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has achieved the target of first eight months [July 2020 to February 2021]…
Charity via empowerment
Huzaima Bukhari “Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it”―John D Rockefeller When a man came begging to our holy…
Governing badly, expecting miracles!
Dr. Ikramul Haq As two-thirds of the tax collected is in the form of indirect taxes and one-fourth of the entire amount comes from petroleum…
FATF: Pakistan’s tough test in June 2021
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori “Pakistan is determined to act against money laundering and terror financing. We have made considerable progress…
