• The unexplainable discrepancy in FED and sales tax numbers in December 2024 raises concerns about data accuracy and ...

KARACHI: A growing debate in Pakistan questions whether raising tobacco taxes is the right approach to reducing smoking rates ...

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

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

Without fundamental rethink and reset, Pakistan’s catastrophic tax regime will drive the country's already shrinking formal ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The 53-year-old father-of-four would use secret compartments and, in one Derby store, sweet boxes, to conceal illicit brands ...