Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq‘All lawmakers are taxpayers’—Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar, Business Recorder, January 7, 2014On the first day of 2014, the Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), while appearing before Public Accounts Committee, offered an illegal, rather obnoxious…
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%…