As part of ongoing negotiations, the FBR has presented these tax cuts to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), justifying them as revenue-generating measures. In a country already drowning in ...

A well-orchestrated campaign advocating for reduced cigarette taxes has recently gained momentum, primarily driven ...

Billions of KT&G’s Pine brand cigarettes have long been smuggled into Pakistan, most likely from the neighboring Afghanistan, ...

The first half of fiscal year 2025 has painted a perplexing picture of Pakistan’s cigarette industry. The latest data on ...

The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) and the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) have ...

Pakistan's economy is losing over a staggering Rs300 billion annually due to an unsustainable tax regime, which has inadvertently incentivised illegal trade in the cigarette sector; a crisis that ...

Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT) while acknowledging the recent enforcement measures taken by the government against illicit ...

The argument that heavy taxation leads to the proliferation of illicit products is neither new nor unique to Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD: A study by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (IPOR) has revealed that around 54 per cent of cigarette brands sold in Pakistan were illicit, leading to a loss of around Rs300 ...

British American Tobacco (BAT) has urged the government to review its heavy taxes on smokeless products, including vapours, and to clamp down on the illicit trade of cigarettes that is expected to ...

Billions of KT&G’s Pine brand cigarettes have long been smuggled into Pakistan, most likely from the neighboring Afghanistan, according to multiple sources. Billions of KT&G’s Pine brand ...