Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The decline in the quality of democracy has most often been driven by political elites focusing on securing their own political and economic power at the expense of societal development—Global Findings byBertelsmannStiftung The…
Finance Bill 2025 Failure in dismantling oppressive tax system
Dr. Ikramul Haq “…regressive taxation, one of the great ironies of Pakistan’s tax system, treating exporters more like easy tax targets than growth drivers. The FY2025 budget pushed exporters into the normal tax regime, imposing a 1.25%…