Pakistan faces multifaceted economic challenges; and amidst these, the role of tobacco taxation emerges as a potential avenue for financial rejuvenation. There is an urgent need to explore how strategic…
Pakistan has often been seen abroad as a crisis-prone country. That reputation has taken on a new life after the April 2022 parliamentary vote of no-confidence, and the unusual events…
This article discusses the issue of availability of food for the poor at affordable prices, economics of agriculture and the misperception about the potential collection of tax on income from…
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…
In Gordium, the capital of Phrygia (ancient Greece), legend had it that whoever could untie an oxcart tied by a complex knot would rule all Asia. Famously, in 333 BCE,…
Pakistan is dangerously polarized. Pakistanis are divided between supporters and opponents of a charismatic leader deemed a messiah by his followers and a scary demagogue by his detractors. There are…
In recent years the word “narratives’ and the phrase “narrative building” have come to occupy a prominent place in political, social and strategic discourses. Narrative was previously a concept confined…
The second point in the judgment authored by the Honourable Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan in the case titled ‘M/s Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited & another v Federation of Pakistan…
Former member of parliament of the United Kingdom William Cobbett is famously known to have stated: “Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as…
Taxation is the lifeblood of any country's economic system – as the primary source of government revenue for public services, infrastructure, and social welfare. Taxation in Pakistan dates back to…
