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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

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|
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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

Wide shot of people in a street in Lahore, Pakistan.
March 2025|
Blog

Pakistanis are paying over 1.7 billion GBP in zakat every year—mostly to women

by Max Gallien, Umair Javed & Vanessa van den Boogaard

Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion – broadly 2,5%…

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

Research in Brief

Between God, the People, and the State: Citizen Conceptions of Zakat

Working Paper

Between God, the People, and the State: Citizen Conceptions of Zakat

News
August 2022
Dr Mutjaba Piracha wins in Bloomsbury Pakistan Book Prize

The ICTD is very pleased to announce that Dr Mutjaba Piracha has been shortlisted for the Bloomsbury Pakistan Book Prize 2022 for his book “Property Taxes and State Incapacity in Pakistan.”…

Book

Property Taxes and State Incapacity in Pakistan