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Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Why has Pakistan failed to enforce voluntary tax compliance? In democratic countries people can feel and even measure tangible benefits of taxes paid by them. They get facilities of health, education, transport, housing, income support when unemployed, social security...

BY: ELLAHI BUKHSH QURESHI, ACA, APFA, LLM (UK) Abstract: Withholding tax is a valuable tool used by many tax jurisdictions in their tax machinery for revenue and data collection. A brief introduction to withholding tax mechanism is followed by analyses of overwhelming reliance of Pakistan...

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 Qazi Faez Isa of Supreme Court “raised questions and highlighted that for some years his client’s (Justice Faez Isa) wife...

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The judiciary worked tirelessly to provide justice to the people with less resources. 3,100 judges worked hard and decided 3.6 million cases in a year. Judiciary decides all the cases on merit and does not differentiate between the rich...

Dr. Ikramul Haq “Only two [tobacco] companies pay 98 percent of total tax [tobacco collection]. The remaining 40% companies pay meagre 2% tax”—Prime Minister, Imran Khan “Cigarette manufacturers across the country are evading millions of rupees in taxes through fraudulent methods in connivance with government...