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.
Intentions vs. reality
Huzaima Bukhari “Good intentions and grand theories do not make a good programme. Programmes work best when they’re based on a detailed understanding of the…
Tax bailout for economic revival
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq According to various Press reports, all businesses in Pakistan, as elsewhere, badly hit by lockdown in the wake of…
Corona-toll, negative taxation & charity
Dr. Ikramul Haq Much before Covid-19 outbreak, the widening income and wealth disparities were highlighted in these columns with solutions to bridge the growing rich-poor…
Incentive-package for construction industry
Amnesty, tax breaks & multiple reliefs Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, in a Press conference on April…
Dismantling “sweet” cartelisation
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq It is unprecedented in the country’s history that preliminary reports into sudden price hike of these commodities were released…
Self-serving tax waivers
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In tax laws, many statutory regulatory orders (SROs) create discriminations among people equally placed, favour the influential segments of…
Robber barons, oligarchy & oppressed
Dr. Ikramul Haq The economic misery of millions of Pakistanis in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, monopoly of State oligarchy on resources and abuse of…
Corona-crisis: A wake-up call?
Huzaima Bukhari “Death is the final wake-up call”—Douglas Horton Specialized training of income tax for probationary officers who qualified the Civil Services Competitive Examination of…
Covid-19 pandemic
Combatting & redefining future Dr. Ikramul Haq The worldwide Covid-19 crisis has jolted the entire humanity, exposed vulnerabilities of even those states considered as…
Demographic analysis: pragmatic use
Huzaima Bukhari “If you’re a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you’re not going to be a…
Covid19-pendamic, leadership & apathy
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In a country of about 210 million people, about 10,000 individuals, prominent in business or profession or holding key…
Tax package for coronavirus economic toll
Learning from China & others Dr. Ikramul Haq Nobody in Pakistan has highlighted till today what China has offered as tax package to help domestic…
Pakistan: case for external debts write-off
Huzaima Bukhari “Good debt accrues assets that generate positive returns and externalities”—Anthony Scaramucci—American political consultant Any logical person would advise someone looking for a break-through…
Relief & stimulus package
When challenges offer opportunities Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of…
Decades of (in)dependence
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq After seven decades of independence, the rulers in Pakistan want to celebrate liberation from colonial rule having pushed the…
NFC & fiscal consolidation
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In these columns, we have been repeatedly pleading for an urgent action to review the existing taxation rights under…
Helplessness—a human tragedy?
Huzaima Bukhari “Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment”—Joss Whedon When a crisis hits one with no…
Forgotten suo motu case
Dr. Ikramul Haq “It has been common knowledge for years that a large number of Pakistani citizens, who are residents of Pakistan and are maintaining…