About this programme
Think you don't pay tax because you've never filed a return? You pay it on your phone, your electricity bill and your petrol. So where does that money go, what do you get back, and who really pays?
LIVE with tax lawyer Dr Ikramul Haq, Supreme Court advocate with a doctorate in tax law, adjunct faculty at LUMS and member of PIDE's advisory board.
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In just three months this summer (July to September 2026), salaried Pakistanis paid Rs144 billion in income tax; shopkeepers and wholesalers together, about Rs18 billion. Punjab's farm income tax for a whole year is about Rs4 billion. And this week the IMF told Pakistan to tax its "under-taxed sectors". My guest says Pakistan is not a poor country but a poorly governed one. So who really pays, and who escapes?
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