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Reports
Illegal Cigarettes: A Billion-Dollar Tax Loss And A Wider Security Concern
Click this link to access the attached ACT Alliance Pakistan report, which examines the economic, enforcement, financial-crime, and national-security risks created by Pakistan’s large...
Reports
A Trillion-Dollar Economy Cannot Be Built On A Leaking Tax Base
Pakistan’s ambition to become a trillion-dollar economy will depend on far more than headline growth rates. It will depend on whether the state can...
Press Releases
Pakistan Customs Deserves National Support In Fight Against Smuggling: ACT Alliance Pakistan
Islamabad – Mubashir Akram, Country Director, ACT Alliance Pakistan, has expressed deep sorrow over the martyrdom of Customs Sepoy Jawad Ahmed and Excise ASI Sajid ul...
Reports
Illegal Trade Will Derail Pakistan’s Trillion-Dollar Economic Ambition
A Year That Exposed the Scale of the ProblemDuring FY2025–26, Pakistan’s illegal trade problem became harder to dismiss as a collection of isolated smuggling...
Reports
Pakistan Needs Permanent Enforcement Against Illegal Trade
Pakistan’s fight against illegal trade should not be treated as a temporary campaign, a revenue stunt, or a seasonal administrative drive. It should become...
Reports
Pakistan’s Smallest Businesses Carry The Heaviest Burden
Pakistan’s micro businesses are easy to overlook because most do not appear in corporate surveys, stock-market reports, or investment announcements. Yet they are everywhere:...
Briefs
Three Sectors, Trillions At Risk: The Case For Permanent Enforcement
Pakistan’s illegal economy is not a collection of isolated market violations. It is a system that rewards tax evasion, weakens lawful businesses, diverts capital...
Press Releases
Illegal Trade in Petroleum, Real Estate, And Tobacco Requires Sustained Enforcement
Islamabad - Mubashir Akram, Country Director, ACT Alliance Pakistan, has called for stronger, sustained, and better-resourced enforcement against Pakistan’s illegal economy, saying that illegal...
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