Tax expenditure as subsidy to elites: myth or reality?
In the last ten or so years, economic issues and tax collection by FBR has been brought increasingly under focus. Matters that were previously discussed in economic and policy circles…
Senate body annoyed with substandard nursing colleges
The subcommittee of the Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services (NHS) on Tuesday expressed its annoyance over poor standard of nursing colleges. Convened by Senator Rubina Khalid, the meeting…
Biden doubles down on emerging markets as Xi snubs G20
US President Joe Biden arrives at this weekend’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting in India with an offer for the “Global South”: whatever happens to China’s economy, the United States…
Taxing work and subsidising non-work
Turns out that there’s a Salaried Class Alliance (SCA), based in Karachi, which describes itself as a “non-political, non-religious, non-ethnic, non-profit organisation that aims to create awareness among the salaried…
No shape or substance, just hollowness
The Friday Column Throughout my living years, I imagined that I had a fair stock of words I could choose from to express my thoughts exactly the way I needed…
Reimagining the petrol subsidy
The government has taken an initiative to provide a subsidy of Rs100 per liter on petrol to provide some relief to the low-income class in the prevailing economic situation. It…
Subsidy gone wrong
The interim governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have recently launched a free atta (flour) initiative. Rs53 billion worth of free atta is meant to be provided through distribution points…
Targeting subsidies
While headlines are dominated by the politics of power, a significant proportion of the country’s population is struggling to put food on the table. And, as an economic catastrophe unfolds,…
Price falls, red tape curb demand from businesses for German energy subsidy
Take-up by German companies of a government scheme to help with energy costs this winter is likely to be lower than projected due to falling spot prices for gas and…
EU recycles investment plans to counter US green subsidies
Confronted by competition from Washington’s vast green tech investment plan, European leaders are scrambling to loosen their own subsidy rules and redeploy an array of investment funds. Thursday’s summit of…
