Report unmasks tax evasion among Pakistan leaders
- Published: 12 Dec 2012 at 17.46
- Online news: Asia
More than 60 percent of Pakistan's cabinet and two thirds of its federal lawmakers paid no tax last year, according to a report released Wednesday on tax evasion among the country's political leaders.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (right) chairs a cabinet meeting in Islamabad in a photograph released by the Pakistani Press Information Department on February 9, 2011. More than 60 percent of Pakistan's cabinet and two thirds of its federal lawmakers paid no tax last year, according to a report released Wednesday on tax evasion among the country's political leaders.
The study entitled "Representation without Taxation" by investigative journalist Umar Cheema takes Pakistan's elected leaders to task for paying little or no tax despite an estimated average net wealth of $882,000.
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