This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed "Dar's legacy" carried by the newspaper on Monday. According to the writer, "if one were to guess the education and experience of the architect of the budget for fiscal year 2017-18 then without prejudice - prejudice defined as being aware of Ishaq Dar's credentials - one would have concluded it is the work of an accountant. And just one look at the numbers contained in the budget documents would make that apparent. Budgeted projections for the current fiscal year are premature at best, not because Dar himself never bothered to adhere to any of the numbers in the budget, but because past precedence indicates that in an election year expenditure would be much higher than budgeted - and certainly higher than what has been the norm during the past four years of PML-Ns two administrations - first the Sharif and then the Abbasi administration."
What does the writer has to say in her response to the latest tax collection numbers? The revenue collection of FBR has witnessed a handsome growth of 20 percent during July-November 2017-18 when compared with the same period of last year. A Dar's legacy? Objectivity is considered cardinal principle of journalism.
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