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.
Fifth Anniversary of 9/11
Uprooting terrorism or promoting fascism? Dr. Ikramul Haq The blatant acts of terrorism against the United States five years back jolted the entire world. These…
Third Anniversary of 9/11
Uprooting terrorism or promoting fascism? Dr. Ikramul Haq The blatant acts of terrorism against the United States three year back jolted the entire world. These…
9/11: Fear of Freedom
Dr. Ikramul Haq The blatant acts of terrorism against the United States 17 year back jolted the entire world. These raised some important questions about…
9/11: Fear of Freedom
Dr. Ikramul Haq[*] The blatant acts of terrorism against the United States a year back jolted the entire world. These raised some important questions about…
PAKISTAN: SIGNIFICANT TAX DEVELOPMENTS
Dr. Ikramul Haq[1] Visiting Mauritius for the second consecutive year to attend 6th IFA Conference 2012 is indeed an honour and great pleasure. The experience…
Bewilderment over rational tax policy
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq There is a national consensus that the existing tax system needs to be completed restructured to provide an equitable,…
Fiscal deficit & ‘tax expenditure’
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In Pakistan, the successive governments have been always very keen to enhance tax revenues, especially collection by Federal Board…
Analysing “tax expenditure”
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “We don’t do charity in Germany. We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments’ responsibilities”—Henning When, a German…
Maligning taxpayers
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Our politicians and their crony bureaucrats keep on maligning taxpayers while the so-called “informed” analysts and all-knowing (sic) TV…
Retail sector: US$5 billion tax potential
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The top officials of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) admitted before the Standing Committee on Senate on Commerce &…
FBR, NADRA & data sharing
Dr. Ikramul Haq According to a Press report, in a recent meeting between Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA),…
19th anniversary of 9/11
Hidden agenda & “deal” with Taliban Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq On September 11, 2001, nineteen years ago, humanity at large witnessed one…
FBR: reforms, refunds & cleansing
Dr. Ikramul Haq “If we realise that the FBR cannot be fixed, we will create a new FBR. This is because Pakistan’s survival is linked…
Justice, at last!
Huzaima Bukhari “Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay”—Ovid Exactly after seventeen months of the gruesome crime of killing 51 Muslim worshippers in two…
Need to reconsider fiscal management
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Punjab is the most populous [110 million people] province of Pakistan with largest resources and budget size after the…
Modernising & reforming FBR
Dr. Ikramul Haq Pakistan, for the last many decades, has been grappling with the problem of raising adequate taxes to meet needs of both the…
Harmful taxation of IT/telecom sectors
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Pakistan telecom sector contributes steady inflow of heavy tax collections under major heads like Activation Tax, GST/FED, the…
