Smartphones for all?
Pakistan’s smartphone users continue to rely on imported technology. Since the Pakistani rupee continues to slide against the dollar, it makes sense that the government has decided to collaborate with…
‘The year of telecommunication’
Bell to Broadband is a Tale of Telecomm-unication. The beginning of modern telecommunications in the nineteenth century is marked by the invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell which initiated…
Tapping the real revenue potential
"Pakistan's tax revenue remains very low relative to comparator developing countries and the tax effort expected for the country's level of development. This reflects narrow tax bases, overgenerous tax concessions…
Diminishing return filers
Total income tax return filers stood at 1.238 million as of February 15, 2018 of the current tax year 2017 compared to 1.391 million in 2016. This shows that about…
Crypto revolution
THROUGHOUT history, many new technologies launched with great hype have failed to live up to their potential. Blockchain and Bitcoin are examples of such ‘revolutionary’ technologies that are yet to…
Including women
IT’S 2018, but listening to the radio while driving home from the office, the advertisements sound like they are from a century ago. A sales pitch for a new service…
Fixing the ailing tax system
On February 22, 2019, the Government of Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) published two tax directories- 'Parliamentarians Tax Directory' and 'Tax Directory for the year ending 30 June 2017' (these have been tabulated…
