Thread by @faizansiddiqi

Ease of doing biz. Entrepreneurs and small business face a spade of challenges especially the indiscriminate taxes and levies imposed by the various levels of government in PK. The explanation is straight forward we just choose not see it.

When u have a vast majority of folks who have never run any thing successful let alone a biz are the ones running this country.They only understand feudal extraction (rent seeking). It is the same as babu mentality.Targeting those who perceptively have something to give.Or loose

When the vast majority of the people running the country are under qualified and lazy across all levels, this is what you get. Worse still, these taxes they collect hardly deliver any benefit society at large or the common man. It is an exercise to siphon for self & their cronies

So where to from here on this issues? It is obvious that a legislative intervention is required to streamline & harmonize the core issues around taxes & levies, including mode of collection, across the country. Key is how to tackle the vested interests of the feudal/ruling class

Or those whose birth right it has been to not consider themselves a part of the tax net or to self assess that it doesn't apply to them. They are either too big to be taxed because the have alternate arrangements, or the corridors of power they walk through have the right payoffs

Sadly no one calls a spade a spade and the employed class plus general citizenry is double triple taxed because they have no stake in this conversation. Yet the folks would should pay taxes prefer paying settlements and bribes. Because the people running the country are lazy

These so called govt reform bodies keep devising new taxes & levies, use multiple officials or industrial vested groups for input on the same tax items, arm-twist but against the wrong audience.Their methods are as obnoxious as rules they impose & the segments they target

In 70+ yrs if u can't get taxation right some ones really gotten this govt and it's systems figured out. U have the same familiar but sleazeballish people benefiting from this hegemony of bureaucrats and lawmakers n their handlers. It's this circle of life that's draining life

From every one else. From the largest city it's employed class to its residential societies subsidizing the rest of the country the imbalance will eventually shock the system. How & when is a matter of time not a matter of IF. The landlord class considers the rest of us

'bloody tax payers' & good for nothing always complaining. Do u think any of these folks have any interest in making sure that ur kids or mine have any ease let alone of ease of biz. They are protectionist at best and psychotic at worse. Expect nothing to change

So long as ur not willing to change them en mass. For one, businesses hardly know what taxes are legal because the laws are not easily accessible and the ones enforcing them are any thing but legal. Questioning the govt or the tax man is akin to loosing ones religion

And we all know the consequences of both. This lack of transparency provides the cover under which the various revenue agents are able to extort and intimidate SMBs owners.But the so called 'tajir' biradri,'traders' & 'industrialists' are aligned when it comes to not paying taxes

The common man also doesn't know the tax break down in everything he buys at source from retail etc because the lazy ones have factored in the lack of tax payments by pretty much every one outside of khi and the employed class in the cost of doing business better-known as

Survival tax to fund the govt and it's apathy. In this circle of life this is taxation without representation to essentially fund a system of failed results and outcomes to further in debt the future generations of the common man.

A self serving bias where the subject is not privy to the reward nor has control to change the inputs. Talk about ease of doing business we need to talk about the ease of survival first. It seems like most of us are struggling to not be dragged down by this system of invisible

Classist regime. U can't see it but it can see u and sure as hell will extract every ounce of blood sweat and taxes. The shabbar syndrome lives on. When the empowered are helpless imagine how deep the rot is. When it's that deep u cut ur losses and re build vs not.

Time for the non political non everything else class of people ie the bloody tax payers to organize beyond Twitter & seek parity else we will be replaced by others with more to loose and further generations of VC citizenry who will fund the recklessness of the lazy ones

Time to stop being lazy ourselves and seek accountability before we even loose the right to imagine that possibility beyond our own headspace @rebootdude @babushka99 @YusufJan @raza_matin @Ash_Kalim @jehan_ara @SaadGH @ShahidM99 @ZMoosaPK @Huk06 @fmsheik