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.

Finance Act 2020—I  

Lack of initiatives & innovations Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The adoption of Finance Bill 2020 on June 29, 2020 and exceeding the target…

Ethics—a fading trend

Huzaima Bukhari “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world”—Albert Camus On 2 December 2012, Spanish athlete Iván Fernández Anaya was…

PTI’s failure on fiscal front

Dr. Ikramul Haq “The FBR contributes around 80% of the total revenues of the federal government; therefore, any miscalculation or misstargeting can severely cripple the…

The menace of red-tape

Huzaima Bukhari “But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long…

Reconceptualising Jihad

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Dr. Ayesha Jalal, eminent historian, in Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia has brilliantly traced the root and…

Budget 2020-21 & FBR’s target

Dr. Ikramul Haq “…for Pakistan, the fiscal deficit is projected to increase by 9.2 percent of GDP in 2020”—Economic Survey 1999-20quotingFiscal Monitor—April 2020, IMF The…