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Tax Reforms And Fiscal Decentralisation: A Path To Economic Growth In Pakistan

Tax Reforms And Fiscal Decentralisation: A Path To Economic Growth In Pakistan
22.02.2025 40

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Faiz Ahmad Faiz: A Revolutionary Poet And Voice Of The Oppressed

Faiz Ahmad Faiz: A Revolutionary Poet And Voice Of The Oppressed
13.02.2025 10

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Revamping Pakistan’s Fiscal Policy: Reforms For Sustainable Growth

Revamping Pakistan’s Fiscal Policy: Reforms For Sustainable Growth
08.02.2025 30

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Pakistan's Tax Crisis: Low Compliance, FBR Shortfalls, And The Struggle For Revenue Growth

01.02.2025 9

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Pakistan's Tax Paradox: Stagnant Collections, Rising Burdens, And Worsening Inequity

25.01.2025 30

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

FBR's Call For Budget 2025-26 Proposals: Constitutional Challenges And Tax Policy Reforms

18.01.2025 10

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

FBR: Persistent Dismal Performance 

11.01.2025 20

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FBR’s Persistent Failures And The Urgent Need For Comprehensive Tax Reforms In Pakistan

The low degree of accountability of expenditures has made the revenue collection system more vulnerable to frequent restructuring. Placing...

04.01.2025 5

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2025: Tax Policy For Growth & Prosperity  

The just ending of 2024 witnessed the pathetic and disappointing performance of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and provincial tax agencies in...

28.12.2024 10

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Understanding The Legacy Of Benazir  

27 December 2024 marks the seventeenth death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto. She sacrificed her life courageously while resisting the agenda of...

27.12.2024 4

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Anti-People & Anti-Business Taxation! 

The government…introduced a bill in the National Assembly seeking to ban the purchase of cars, properties, and the opening of bank accounts by “...

21.12.2024 7

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Tax Extraction In The Era Of Digitisation

The Ministry of Finance informed the National Assembly that more than Rs. 3.38 trillion has been collected from mobile phone users over the period...

16.12.2024 10

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Punjab: Unconstitutional Taxation 

“Although the Punjab Assembly passed the Agriculture Income Tax Amendment Act of 2024, it fell below the desired target of raising the agriculture...

08.12.2024 8

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Defiance And State Repression

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) convoy, led by Bushra Bibi, the wife of Imran Khan, is approaching Islamabad's Zero Point, which has been taken...

30.11.2024 7

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Retrieving Untaxed, Ill-Gotten Assets

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on November 15, 2024, heard after a lapse of more than six years, Suo Motu Case No. 2 of 2018 on ‘Maintaining of...

23.11.2024 8

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IMF, Mini Budget, Taxes And Growth-II 

This is the second part of a two part series. You can read the first part here. The biggest challenge on the tax mobilisation front faced by the...

16.11.2024 2

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IMF, Mini Budget, Taxes And Growth-I 

“The FBR has already faced a revenue shortfall of Rs189 billion in the first four months of the current fiscal year. It is projected that this...

09.11.2024 3

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Punjab: Failing The Federation

Pakistan has missed three out of five major fiscal conditions set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first quarter of fiscal year...

02.11.2024 10

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

26th Constitutional Amendment: Controversial And Ambiguous

The 26th Constitutional Amendment (CA) passed by Pakistan’s Parliament is a blow to judicial independence, the rule of law, and human rights...

26.10.2024 5

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FBR’s Lack Of Agility

90% of Pakistan’s population does not pay taxes. Out of 43 million households in the country, only 4 million are registered taxpayers……. retired...

19.10.2024 2

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Taxes And Social Democracy

“ Mauritius Revenue Authority disburses all social payments, including negative income tax, special allowance, pregnancy allowance, children...

12.10.2024 3

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Assets Stashed Abroad And Dirty Games Of Politicians

The interim Government [of Bangladesh] on September 28, 2024, restructured an inter-agency task force meant to bring back money illegally taken...

05.10.2024 7

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Punishing The Non-filers!

The government has decided to abolish non-filers from the tax laws and gradually ban their 15 types of activities, as it has won rare support from...

28.09.2024 10

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Malice Towards None & All: Unclogging Of Clogged Judicial System

The available data confirms that every year, more cases are filed than disposed of—choking the justice delivery system. Despite this critical...

21.09.2024 2

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Tax Laws Act 2024: Murder Of Unfettered Right To Justice

The Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 2024, which was passed by the National Assembly on April 29, 2024, and received assent from the President of Pakistan...

14.09.2024 2

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

FBR's New Chairman And Tax Reforms

"Restoring economic security to the working class will require tackling monopoly power, sweeping reforms to our tax code, labour laws, and trade...

07.09.2024 10

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Is Pakistan's Tax System Beyond Reform?

My personal experience has shown that the business community genuinely wants to pay taxes but is often intimidated by the system…. A rough estimate...

31.08.2024 5

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Pakistan Must Reform Its Tax System To Escape The Debt Prison

In his first public appearance after the IMF removed Pakistan from its August 30th board meeting agenda, the finance minister sought to reassure...

24.08.2024 3

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The Lost Dream Of An Egalitarian State

Many Pakistanis, especially the youth in colleges and universities, while celebrating Independence Day every year, express bafflement as to how a...

14.08.2024 10

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Pakistan's 77 Years Of Unprecedented Suffering

Pakistanis have endured 77 years of a painful journey comprised of unprecedented suffering. The misery of the poor and less privileged will...

10.08.2024 20

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Inflation Makes Pakistan's Fiscal Deficit And Taxation Problems Worse

“ Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”—Milton Friedman “A deficit is only evidence of overspending if it sparks...

03.08.2024 2

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The Anatomy Of FBR’s Collections

For two countries with almost the same cost of living, income tax on salaried employees in Pakistan is up to 9.4 times that in India - see...

27.07.2024 3

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The IMF And ‘Agricultural Income’ Tax Reforms

“Taxing agriculture is a core component of the International Monetary Fund's new program for Pakistan and is critical to its success. If the...

20.07.2024 10

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The Political Economy Of Plots And Perks

“Taxes allow the government to collect money from people who have it, which means taxes are looked upon as a way to transfer money to the federal...

13.07.2024 20

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