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.

Kids—potential adults

Huzaima Bukhari “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”—Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman. Nelson Mandela…

Fixing the ailing tax system

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq On February 22, 2019, the Government of Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) published two tax directories—‘Parliamentarians Tax Directory’and ‘Tax Directory for the…

Optimizing tax collection

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “If we realise that the FBR cannot be fixed, we will create a new FBR. This is because Pakistan’s…

Equality in inequality!

Huzaima Bukhari “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”—Aristotle With the introduction of biometric verification whereby a person can…

International Women’s Day

Remembering Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq March 8 marks International Women’s Day. On this day while highlighting the issues faced by…

Pro-people agenda

Dr. Ikramul Haq As two-thirds of the tax collected is in the form of indirect taxes and one-fourth of the entire amount comes from petroleum…

State & religion

Huzaima Bukhari “You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other…

Abusing taxpayers’ money

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In Pakistan, every effort to promote voluntary tax compliance is countered by an argument that taxpayers’ money is not…

Rich-poor widening gap

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq A number of studies confirm that rich-poor divide in Pakistan is increasing alarmingly. According to conservative estimates, 63% of…

IMF, loans & taxes

Dr. Ikramul Haq In its first 6 months the Imran Khan government has been unable to resolve the question “to go or not to go…

Local governments & taxes

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In Pakistan, the poor are subjected to heavy and oppressive taxes, whereas the members of militro-judicial-civil complex, absentee landowners…