Government leaders
We were ready with our tax filings, was the FBR?
“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins”—John Locke A few years after my resignation from the Income Tax Service, I happened to visit the offices in Lahore as a representative of a corporate client. A female officer made a remark that left me somewhat bewildered. According to her, laws were binding on taxpayers, not on those administering them. Having spent nineteen years within the department, I had thought I had understood the relationship between law and administration reasonably well. Her statement appeared astonishing then. However, as I watch the annual ritual surrounding income tax returns