Budget, taxes & development
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “About 60% of the population falls in the “transitory poor” category (Bukhari and Haq, 2019) it means a substantial population has no access to luxurious items; their needs revolve around basic necessities. The rules…
Legislation and governments
Huzaima Bukhari “Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught”–Honore de Balzac The interesting thing about legislation in a country is that those who understand its significance are the ones who are…
Budget 2022 & taxation
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The budget for fiscal year (FY) 2022, the fourth of the coalition Government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), is to be announced on June 11, 2021. Every year before the announcement of annual federal budget—which…
Unconstitutional taxation by provinces
Dr. Ikramul Haq The imposition of any kind of legislation that include levy of any tax or duty, cess etc having extraterritorial impact and involving entities operating on trans-provincial levels by any provincial assembly is patently against Article 141 of…
Weeding out deadwood-II
Huzaima Bukhari and Dr Ikramul Haq In continuation of our earlier article and in response to objections raised by officers belonging to the Income Tax Officers (ITO) batch, the points are further elaborated below to show that there is urgent…
Weeding out deadwood-II
Huzaima Bukhari and Dr Ikramul Haq In continuation of our earlier article and in response to objections raised by officers belonging to the Income Tax Officers (ITO) batch, the points are further elaborated below to show that there is urgent…
Development for social justice
Huzaima Bukhari “The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development”–Wendell Pierce Since humans first set foot on this earth they have always been occupied by what we understand today as economics. Anything and everything comes with a…
Dealing with rich-poor divide
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq CPI basket includes luxurious items while SPI based on basic necessity items. About 60% of the population falls in the “transitory poor” category (Bukhari and Haq, 2019) it means a substantial population has no…
Will Pakistan have ever Pro-people budget?
Dr. Ikramul Haq A student has asked to outline as to what should be the ideal budgets for Pakistani people at federal and provincial levels. My answer is simple: an ideal budget is one that has long-term vision of prosperity…