THIS refers to the article, ‘Why don’t we pay taxes?’ (Sept 18). Shahid Mehmood’s response buries the myth that only a handful of people pay taxes in Pakistan.

Every Pakistani pays indirect tax on almost everything. Let us add to it the invisible tax that each one of us pays every day for bad governance, financial mismanagement and inflation.

As we all pay taxes, we have every right to complain and hold the government responsible for poor governance.

Much of bad governance we see around is not a recent phenomenon. It is so entrenched in the system that it is literally inherited by one government from another.

Altaf Noor Ali

Karachi

Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2017