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Aasaan tax scheme: when easy becomes difficult

Pakistan Published 5 November 2026, 05:31 · archived 5 Nov 2026

EDITORIAL: Released data indicates that the Aasaan tax scheme has failed to take off, like its precursor Taajir Dost scheme of 2024, with only 222 instead of the hoped for one million traders having registered. The objective of the two schemes was to bring traders within the ambit of the tax net which clearly has not been successful. Be that as it may, there were some differences between the two schemes though a refinement of the Aasaan scheme was clearly not sufficient to lure more traders to participate: (i) the mechanism of Taajir Dost scheme was a monthly advance minimum tax based on elect...

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