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Digital Eye Pakistan
May 2026|
Blog

Using technology to encourage voluntary compliance: Digital Eye in Pakistan

With support from the REMIT programme, Pakistan’s Federal Board of Revenue is deploying new technologies to try and boost tax collections, and Digital Eye is leading the way….

Working Paper

Zakat as Non-State Social Welfare Provision: Distributional Dynamics and Gender Equity in Pakistan

Working Paper

Taxing Choices: Reconciling Global International Tax Standards with Pakistan’s Domestic Tax Realities

Completed Project

Comparative Perspectives on International Tax from the Global South

News
Busy market in Wazirabad, Pakistan, with people walking in the middle road and a man on a motorbike is facing the camera. To the left and right of the main street, market stalls with clothes on display hanging.
June 2025
Pakistan’s bid to raise more revenue: a closer look at wealth taxes and DPI

With a projected deficit of 3.9% of GDP and multiple economic challenges, one equitable way to raise revenue in Pakistan is through wealth taxes. …

Wide shot of a series of 6 apartments complexes that are under construction in Islamabad, Pakistan
June 2025|
Blog

Pakistan’s support for wealth taxes

by Max Gallien, Umair Javed & Vanessa van den Boogaard

In a context marked by deepening fiscal constraint, wealth taxes offer a potential solution for Pakistan as they have done in many other. …

Policy Brief

Public Support for Wealth and Progressive Taxes in Pakistan

Factsheet

Zakat Payments in Pakistan Exceed State Social Protection

Journal Article

Zakat, Non-state Welfare Provision and Redistribution in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Journal Article

Does the Value-Added Tax Add Value? Lessons Using Administrative Data from a Diverse Set of Countries

Women from Rawalpindi queue to participate in Pakistan's elections.
February 2024|
Blog

Tax reforms and the battle for Pakistan’s future in the 2024 elections

by Ahsan Zia Farooqui & Farooq Chatha

Pakistan’s 2024 general elections are going ahead tomorrow amidst economic turmoil, terrorism, and regional tensions. Shunned…

Journal Article

Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore