IDEAS is a new economic policy and development think-tank that is being
set up with funding from the Open Society Foundation New York and will be
based in Lahore. In collaborations with its partners, The Asia Research
Center at London School of Economics, Center for Development Research at the
University of Bonn, Development Policy Research Center (DPRC) at the Lahore
University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the Institute of Business
Administration (IBA), University of Karachi and the National Press Club of
Pakistan , IDEAS is sponsoring a week of seminars in Islamabad, Lahore and
Karachi entitled Tax Week: The Urgency of Tax Reform: the Challenges to the
Macroeconomic Situation and Devolution. The seminar series will be led by Dr.
Ehtisham Ahmed, the eminent international fiscal expert, former Pakistan
representative on the International Monetary Fund board, and current fellow
at the Asia Research Center at the London School of Economics and the
Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn.
The focus of this seminar will be to move the debate forward and address
questions which have derailed the tax reform agenda in the past months.
Detailed discussion topics will include:
§ The sustainability of Pakistani public finance. Do we need to go back
to the IMF? What are the debt dynamics and is another IMF program
inevitable? What might be involved in such a successor program? Is the relevant
debate spending restraint or tax reform, or will both be needed?
§ What are the parameters of tax reform? What are the Government's
options in addressing the fiscal crisis if politically RGST is not feasible?
What are the short and medium-term macroeconomic scenarios? Is there a
political sequencing of reform which may be second best from an efficiency point
of view but more viable politically, with the added benefit of potentially
increasing tax compliance? A big argument against the RGST has been that
tax administration is incompetent and corrupt. How have other countries
addressed this issue and are there lessons for Pakistan from this experience?
§ Tax reform and devolution. How does the lack of tax reform effect
devolution under the 18th Amendment? Is there a role for reconsidering some of
the revenue assignments to ensure greater efficiency of administration and
better sub-national accountability?
The venues and timing of events are given below. If you are interested in
attending, please contact Asad Beg at _abaig@osipak.org_
(mailto:abaig@osipak.org)
Islamabad
Seminar Title: The Urgency of Tax Reform: The Challenges to the
Macroeconomic Situation and Devolution
Place: National Press Club Islamabad, Sector F-61, Islamabad.
Date: Monday, April 25, 2011; Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Lahore
Seminar Title: Tax and Social Policy Design and Intergovernmental
Relations
Place: Faculty Lounge, Lahore University of Management Sciences, DHA
Lahore.
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011;Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Karachi
Seminar Title: Intergovernmental Relations after the 18th Amendment, 7th
NFC Award & the Failure of Tax Reform
Place: Center for Executive Education, Institute of Business
Administration City Campus: Garden/Kayani Shaheed Road, Karachi.
Date: Thursday April 28, 2011;Time: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
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