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.
The Politics of Loan Write Offs
By Dr. Ikramul Haq* The country’s banks and other financial institutions wrote off a staggering amount of over Rs 30 billion during the governments of…
Judges and accountability
Dr. Ikramul Haq The process of accountability must start from those who judge others. Any process of accountability lacking credibility and transparency is bound to…
Income Tax base – Myth & Reality
By Dr. Ikramul Haq* The Central Board of Revenue has been consistently and persistently claiming that tax base of Pakistan is disappointingly narrow and majority…
When work is worship
Huzaima Bukhari All religions, whether Godly or man-made, prescribe sets of rituals that signify essential elements of their tenets. One can easily identify followers of…
Corrupt body politics
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq All public power is a sacred trust, which is to be exercised fairly, justly, honestly and in accordance with…
Urgent tax reforms
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq It is clear by now that the government of Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI), like its predecessors, has no definite action…
HOW TO DISPENSE WITH OPPRESSIVE TAX SYSTEM
By Ikramul Haq* Over the last many years, the need for tax reforms is stressed and reiterated by all quarters including the Government itself. However,…
Government-Traders Agreement on GST
By Dr. Ikramul Haq Dr. Ikramul Haq, a leading international tax counsel, is a well-known author specialising in international tax, press, intellectual property, corporate and…
Daughters of the East
Huzaima Bukhari “We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam…
Benazir: leader par excellence
Dr. Ikramul Haq 27 December 2017 marks the eleventh death anniversary of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. She sacrificed her life courageously while resisting the agenda of…
Remembering Benazir Bhutto
December 27, 2018 marks the 11th death anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the great visionary leader, who resisted with great courage the agenda of…
“Secrecy” of tax declarations
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq A write-up published in an English daily on November 19, 2019 claimed that Mr. Babar Sattar, counsel for Justice…
Reluctant return filers
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “FBR has until 10.10.2018 received 482,275 Income Tax returns for the Tax Year 2018, which are 170,208 more than…
Tax Directory 2016—Analysis
The top 500 companies in Pakistan paid Rs 364.325 billion in taxes during 2016-17. Out of 79,728 companies included in the Tax Directory 2016-17, about…
Tax Directory 2016—Analysis
The top 500 companies in Pakistan paid Rs 364.325 billion in taxes during 2016-17. Out of 79,728 companies included in the Tax Directory 2016-17, about…
Pending cases in Courts of Pakistan (as of 30.09.2018)
PendencyNo. of JudgesCase per JudgeSupreme Court of Pakistan40,243172367Federal Shariat Court422584Lahore High Court, Lahore165,515562956High Court of Sindh, Karachi92,169342710Peshawar High Court, Peshawar29,624171743High Court of Balochistan, Quetta6,8428855Islamabad High…
Of taxpayers & non-filers
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Millions of Pakistanis by virtue of over 65 types of withholding taxes imposed under the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001,…
Forces of terrorism & obscurantism
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq One should never forget the ghastly and cowardly attack of September 15, 2013 by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) on Major General…