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.
Oppressive taxes & rich-poor divide
Dr. Ikramul Haq The world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 percent of the planet’s population—Oxfam’s report,…
Subverting Tax Tribunals
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “….the raison d’être of establishing special tribunals has been to dispense better quality of justice where people, better trained…
Dealing with traders—II
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq This second concluding part of previous article discusses outcome of meeting between Prime Minister and the business community on…
Legislators, declarations & accountability
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on January 15, 2020 suspended the memberships of 318 lawmakers of the provincial…
Dealing with traders—I
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “I will not give in to unreasonable pressure of the business community….I will not step back after countrywide strikes…
2020: Year of Prosperity—debate & discourse
State, elitism & poverty alleviation Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “The State shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual…
Rejoinder to ‘unconstitutional taxation by provinces’
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In response to our article [Unconstitutional taxation by provinces, Business Recorder, January 3, 2020], a letter was published on…
‘Hot Money’: lower tax on higher yield!
Dr. Ikramul Haq It is unfortunate that contrary to all tall claims of getting rid of loans, especially the costly ones, the coalition Government of…
Hats off to circumspect housewives!
Huzaima Bukhari “For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by…
Breaking ‘Debt Prison’
Dr. Ikramul Haq “The central government’s debt increased at a double-digit pace to Rs. 32.1 trillion by the end of November [2019], an addition of…
The choice of a life companion
Huzaima Bukhari “Inna akramakum inda-Allahi anqakum (Verily the most honourable among you with Allah is that believer who is pious).”―Al Quran, Al Hujaraat (49:13) A…
When closeness breeds distance!
Huzaima Bukhari “We are now living in a post–Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse”―Jon…
Offshore or onshore!
Dr. Ikramul Haq In the wake of Panama Papers: Politicians, Criminal & Rogue Industry That Hide Their Cash, heated debatesat homes and abroad are going…
Height of ignorance & naivety!
Dr. Ikramul Haq The myth that technocrats can run government affairs better than bureaucrats is busted at least in Pakistan in recent months by Dr.…
FBR’s performance—first half of FY 2020
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The low degree of accountability of expenditures has made the revenue collection system more vulnerable to frequent restructuring. Placing…
Unconstitutional taxation by provinces
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The imposition of any kind of legislation that include levy of any tax or duty, cess etc having extraterritorial…
Stare rationibus decidendis
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq INTRODUCTION In view of the hierarchical character of the judicial system in Pakistan, it is of paramount importance that…
2019: Wither PTI’s tax reforms?
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) contrary to its election promises after coming into power avoided fundamental structural tax…
