How to transform indirect tax system
One of the biggest impediments towards achieving higher sustainable economic growth in Pakistan is the poor taxation system and abysmally low tax collections. Due to failure of successive governments to…
NAB’s anti-corruption drive
Countering corruption, rent-seeking, black money and tax evasion is a daunting task in Pakistan “The institutional structure of Pakistan’s economy is designed to generate rents for the elite at the…
‘Charter of Economy’
Presenting the budget FY2016-17, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar renewed his call to all political parties to frame a 'Charter of Economy' similar to Charter of Democracy (CoD) signed some years…
Anachronistic CII
Last week, the Senate’s Functional Committee on Human Rights called for disbanding the misogynistic and retrogressive Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) and suggested that its budget be reallocated to the…
Goodbye to IMF
Clear indications have come recently both from the Government and the IMF that the present EFF programme will come to an end in September 2016. No new programme will be…
Women’s electoral rights
The decision by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to set up a working group for promoting women’s electoral rights through partnership with civil society organisations is sound in principle.…
Taxes and revenues
Last week I wrote about a proposal floated by some researchers connected with the World Bank and a few other donor agencies to begin relying more on turnover taxes instead…
Pakistan’s place
"All predictions are wrong; that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind".-Milan Kundera International Monetary Fund's celebrated quarterly journal Finance & Development (September 2014) did a bold work by asking…
NAB’s anti-corruption drive
Countering corruption, rent-seeking, black money and tax evasion is a daunting task in Pakistan “The institutional structure of Pakistan’s economy is designed to generate rents for the elite at the…
Elusive liberalism
Some recent policy half-measures have raised hopes among liberals and hackles among clerics that Pakistan is becoming a liberal state and the Sharifs’ liberalism’s fearless champions. To see if this…
