Using state archives from Pakistan from its early years, I show that the state has been unable to arrive at political settlement with the society that would give it the necessary consents from its citizens for taxing them effectively.

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It does so by developing a novel understanding of formal institutions by investigating Pakistan's inability to improve its tax collection despite several reform efforts.

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Literature identifies strong centralised state bureaucracies as an important factor for strong fiscal capacity. This paper argues that a state's fiscal capacity can be weak despite having a strong centralised state structure.

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