Tax burden
Pakistan's salaried class continues to be treated as the state's most convenient cash cow - heavily taxed, tightly documented and yet persistently deprived of basic public services. Fresh figures from FBR show just how skewed the burden has become. During the first seven months of the current fiscal year, salaried individuals paid Rs315 billion in income tax, a jump of over 10% from an already high base last year. This contribution — more than double of what the real estate sector paid........
