Incidence of Taxes in Pakistan: Primer and Estimates

Umir Wahid and Sally Wallace

International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU from International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Abstract: Who pays Pakistan’s taxes? Do they fall inordinately on low-income families, or on labor working in the formal sector, or is the tax burden borne disproportionately by the higher income classes, who also own most of the capital in the country? The fairness of the tax system is not only affected by who pays taxes, but by who does not. The latter group might include those working in the hard-to-tax informal sector, agriculture, those who benefit from legal exemptions, and those who evade taxes.

Keywords: Pakistan; Pakistan taxation; hard-to-tax informal sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 250 pages
Date: 2008-12-01
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