A Conceptual Research Paper Author Name: Maryam Khan (Accounting & Finance) laureatefolks@gmail.com THE IMPACT OF TAX SYSTEM ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF A COUNTRY 1. INTRODUCTION A sound tax system is essential for the economic growth of the country. There are interconnections between these two elements based on policy makings, academicians, and regulatory circles. A large amount of tax revenues has required for running economic activities efficiently in developing countries. Tax revenues utilize both national and sub-national levels when the world has become a global village, then imports and exports increase. It introduced a Goods and Service Tax (GST) in many developing countries (Mcnabb, 2018). Developing countries are facing challenges in maintaining current tax revenues (Bird and Zolt, 2011). Tax structure and tax collection impact the economy by tax burden. The positive and negative impact of the tax system made the economic and tax growth more complex.   In th...

  A Conceptual Research Paper Author Name: Fatima Imran (English Language and Literature) laureatefolks@gmail.com Code-Switching, A Tool or Another Excuse?   Abstract In Pakistan, people use a lot of English codes in their everyday speech and many English words have become a necessary part of our language as people are unable to find their Urdu alternates and find it easier to just use the English ones. As code-switching is an integral part of bilingualism when people code-switch between the languages they know for different reasons. This study is based on the empirical data collected from interviews of Pakistani celebrities and some common citizens, and it aims to show that code-switching can be more than just a random choice of a word or phrase, or sentence from another language. In Pakistan, code-switching occurs at the word level, phrase level, and sentence level, from which code-switching at word level is more common. In this paper, we discuss reasons for code-switc...