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.
Little steps, bigger goals
Huzaima Bukhari “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”―Edmund Burke The universe is a huge…
For the love of one’s country
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Human beings are not surprisingly, attached to the place of their birth, no matter how advanced or how backward…
Unifying force
Culture, religion or humanity? Huzaima Bukhari “’Hamlet’ is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims but all people…
Raising taxes of Rs. 8 trillion
Dr. Ikramul Haq At present, Pakistan’s public debt is almost 600 percent of tax revenues and development spending is significantly less than interest payments”— Unlocking…
Legislature vis-à-vis public
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq If anything may be asserted with complete confidence, it is that governments through courtesy of the legislature undo many…
Nature is life!
Huzaima Bukhari “If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power…
Let us start from home
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “A large part of crime is economics – if people are working and have a home and family to…
Appraisal of consumers’ rights
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In Donoghue v Stevenson (1932) 562 (HL), a famous British case decided in the House of Lords, Lord Atkin…
Humans and animals
Huzaima Bukhari “We have certainly created man in the best of compositions. Then we return him to the lowest of the low. Except for those…
Humans and animals
Huzaima Bukhari “We have certainly created man in the best of compositions. Then we return him to the lowest of the low. Except for those…
Making Pakistan ‘Asian Tiger’
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In the past, the repeated claims by Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, influential ministers of the cabinet of…
Reforming tax appellate system
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The existing tax appellate system—hopelessly redundant, painfully unproductive and marred with inefficiency and inordinate delays—needs complete restructuring so that…
Taxes, prosperity & welfare
Huzaima Bukhari & Ikramul Haq Taxation is a lot like sheep shearing. As long as you shear a sheep, it will continue to produce a…
Civil Servants
Recruitment & training—II Huzaima Bukhari “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”―Benjamin Franklin, Generally, corporate bodies,…
Civil servants
Recruitment & training—I Huzaima Bukhari “It’s not finding yourself that’s hard; it’s facing yourself that is”―Alexander Den Heijer, If today, fingers are being raised against…
Wither tax reforms?
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Does the government of Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI) still desire to bring about fundamental tax reforms that were promised in…
Plight of the rural poor
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq A report by the World Bank, State of Water Supply, Sanitation and Poverty in Pakistan, released on November 1,…
