The Untapped Tax Potential of the Cigarette Industry in Pakistan
This policy brief was produced by the Social Policy and Development Centre of Pakistan (SPDC) and estimates the extent of under-reporting of cigarette production by the tobacco industry in recent years. The considerable level of under-reporting substantially effects tax collection efforts by the Federal Board of Revenue. Among other policy recommendations, the brief recommends greater efforts to monitor the industry to prevent further under-reporting.
A corresponding report can be found here.
December 2019
Project: Think Tanks Project: Accelerating Progress on Tobacco Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Content Type: Policy Brief
Topic(s): Economic impacts of tobacco control, Supply-side issues and interventions, Tax and price, Tax avoidance and evasion, Tax levels and structure, Tobacco taxes revenues
Authors(s): Muhammad Asif Iqbal, Ph.D., Muhammad Sabir, Wasim Saleem, Adeel Ali, Naveed Aamir
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