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.
FATF—Pakistan
Real Estate Sector in Focus Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori February 2021 has significant importance for Pakistan due to a review…
FATF & Pakistan’s faulty action plan
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, the Federal Board of Revenue is responsible for ensuring that designated…
Paradigm shift in tax policy
Dr. Ikramul Haq ‘The impact of economic growth on the lives of people is partly a matter of income distribution, but it also depends greatly…
PTI’s unconstitutional amnesties
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on the last day of 2020, without any legal instrument, issued a clarification…
The helpless, the powerless!
Huzaima Bukhari “We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it…
Tax codes: unconstitutional framing & delegation
Dr. Ikramul Haq Every year before the preparation of annual federal budget, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) seeks proposals from officers, trade/professional bodies, tax…
FBR: unconstitutional “legislator”
Dr. Ikramul Haq In the last week’s column, it was promised that till February 15, 2021, deadline set by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR),…
Restructuring the tax system
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “If we realise that the FBR cannot be fixed, we will create a new FBR. This is because Pakistan’s…
FATF & Pakistan’s faulty action plan
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, the Federal Board of Revenue is responsible for ensuring that designated…
Pakistan Tackling FATF
Challenges & Solutions Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori “Since June 2018, when Pakistan made a high-level political commitment to work with…
Homage to Towering Personalities of Tribunal
Professionals & humanists par excellence Dr. Ikramul Haq “….the raison d’être of establishing special tribunals has been to dispense better quality of justice where people,…
Consumer protection scene in Pakistan
Huzaima Bukhari In Donoghue v Stevenson (1932) 562 (HL), a famous British case decided in the House of Lords, Lord Atkin established that ‘duty of…
Advance tax, refunds & compensation
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq A cursory look at the annual year books published by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) after the promulgation…
FBR: proposals for status quo
Dr. Ikramul Haq Every year before the preparation of annual federal budget, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) seeks proposals from officers, trade/professional bodies, tax…
Welfare Laws & Role of State
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq ‘Pakistan People’s Party regime from 1971 to 1977 provided some sort of socialistic framework for the economy. The validity…
Satti and police highhandedness
Huzaima Bukhari “Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults”―Marilyn Manson The year 2021 opened with the tragic death of…
FATF, Pakistan & TBML
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori International trade networks can attract criminals and terrorists financiers who exploit the interconnected supply chains to…
Meeting FATF’s remaining requirements
Dr. Ikramul Haq Much has been written on meeting the remaining six challenges posed by Finical Action Task Force (FATF) and how to come out…
