You do know the root cause is that the common pakistanis do not pay their taxes right? Easy to blame the govt.
The common Pakistanis do pay their taxes, it is a common misconception that the ordinary people have it easy.
The income Tax has been increasing and the salaried class is really under pressure for quite some time now.
However, the challenge remains to effectively Tax the huge landlord community since we are a major agricultural economy.
The farmers are struggling but the Land Barons are still minting money.
The culture of not effectively checking and punishing the huge loan defaulters has basically destroyed our economy....all the while the ordinary man shall be grilled on loan repayment.
The Bank Of Punjab money scandal was in excess of 50 billion PKR...Loans were used to buy property for the politically influential families instead of setting up businesses....this has been the norm of the land mafia which acquires property on loans meant for industrialization and job creation and defaults on these loans...
I have been paying more Income Tax for past decade than what Nawaz Sharif had been paying and I am not finding it easy to support my family these days...while his style of living is known to all.
This is the problem which needs to be addressed.
How these elite and richest people end up giving relatively little or nothing back to the economy is the core of the problem, whether it is the system which needs to be re tuned or whether it is the implementation of the system which needs to be enforced with iron will...the problem needs to be addressed.
The common man is not the major defaulter, however seeing how the elitists easily avoid taxation...the motivation is there for the common man to not play by the rules.
