2019: Review of PTI’s fiscal strategy; Avoiding reforms & imprudent policies
An unusual decline in revenue collection and steep rise in current expenditures caused a deterioration in all major fiscal indicators ...
Tag: Shabbar Zaidi
Unpaid refunds: continuation of ‘Dar(k) Era’
The poor genuine exporters were left begging for their refunds but fraudsters made up bogus documentation and decamped with huge ...
SMEs, EODB & tax reforms
“The small and medium enterprises (SME) sector contributes 30% to the national gross domestic product (GDP) and it comprises 90% ...
PTI’s flawed policies & forgotten promises
Prime Minister Imran Khan, while addressing top officials of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on November 13, 2019, sought their ...
Amnesties & tax losses
Pakistan is a unique country where the governments—military and civilian alike—have been frequently introducing amnesty schemes allowing whitening of untaxed/undeclared ...
Tax on more marriages is political victimisation: Shehbaz Sharif
Calling it an act of political victimization, the PML-N has threatened to resign from all assemblies if Shabbar Zaidi’s dreadful ...
Considering renaming Pakistan as Taxistan: Chairman FBR Shabbar Zaidi
The PTI-led federal government is high on taxes these days (No, I’m not at all talking about the high you ...
Non-filers will die as non-filers, says FBR chairman
Making their lives tougher and harder, Federal Board of Revenue has banned non-filers from becoming filers for life. In a ...