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FBR & Pakistan

  1. FBR: violating its own law! — FBR acting against its own law
  2. FBR’s statistics: A critical analysis — A critical reading of FBR’s own statistics
  3. FBR: Dwindling tax collection — Dwindling tax collection
  4. Why should FBR be dissolved? — The case for dissolving the FBR
  5. FBR’s performance (1996-97 to 2017-18) — Two decades of FBR performance
  6. Streamlining the FBR in haste! — Hasty streamlining of the FBR
  7. FBR: Persistent Dismal Performance — FBR’s persistent poor performance
  8. FBR’s Performance: H1 FY2025 — First-half FY2025 performance
  9. FBR’s Performance FY 2024-25 (Part I) — “Two Yearbooks, Two Narratives” — FBR’s record against its own yearbooks
  10. FBR’s Performance FY 2024-25 (Part II) — “Income Tax or Expropriatory Taxation?” — income tax increasingly withholding-based
  11. FBR’s Performance FY 2024-25 (Part III) — “Sales Tax: Narrow Base, High Rates” — sales-tax composition
  12. FBR’s Performance FY 2024-25 (Part IV) — “Tariff distortions, under-invoicing & structural trade imbalances” — customs/trade
  13. FBR’s Performance FY 2024-25 (Part V) — “FED: Evasion, Fiscal Federalism & Policy Failure” — federal excise duty
  14. FBR’s Performance FY 2024-25 (Part VI) — “Trust Deficit, Tariff & Structural Reform” — the series conclusion
  15. FBR’s persistent failure in tax broadening — WHT was 59% of income-tax collection in FY2024-25; the broadening failure

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