The failure to push through the RGST lies more with the political machinery than it does with the finance ministry.
BAHALWALPUR: This is with reference to your report “Media watch: More reshuffling for finance” (December 22).
It’s all about trying not to see the elephant in the room. The failure to push through the RGST lies more with the political machinery than it does with the finance ministry, and the finance minister, unless he has political sanction, can recommend whatever he likes, all to no avail. The elephant comes in the form of the establishment refusing to take on the feudals and the big agriculturalists who evade the tax net. Unless we create a more equitable tax system and enforce it, we are going to live in penury forever and a day.
Chris Cork
Published in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2010.
