- 🔹 Pakistan’s Finance Bill 2026 significantly expands FBR’s e-invoicing and electronic integration powers under the Sales Tax Act, with non-compliant businesses facing suspension or blacklisting, and introduces a National Faceless Centre for electronic audits, assessments, and appellate proceedings. [kpmg.com]
- 🔹 The Third Schedule of the Sales Tax Act is substantially broadened to include numerous consumer products under retail-price-based taxation at the standard rate, while new sales tax exemptions are introduced for contraceptives, female sanitary products, certain vessels, and specified electric vehicles. [fbr.gov.pk]
- 🔹 On customs, a comprehensive tariff rationalization programme reduces duties on industrial inputs across multiple slabs, caps regulatory duties at 20%, and introduces exemptions for cancer-related APIs, agricultural machinery, and construction equipment. [fbr.gov.pk]
Article: Pakistan’s Federal Budget 2026-27, presented on 12 June 2026, proposes far-reaching changes to the indirect tax landscape. In the sales tax domain, the Finance Bill significantly strengthens the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) powers over electronic integration: businesses failing to integrate with e-invoicing or production monitoring systems risk suspension or blacklisting. The Tier-I retailer definition is expanded through turnover-based criteria, and a new National Faceless Centre is proposed for conducting all sales tax audits and assessments electronically. Anti-fraud provisions introduce a public register of simulated invoice issuers, denial of input tax credits for dealings with fictitious suppliers, and penalties equivalent to invoice values. The Third Schedule, governing retail-price-based taxation at the standard 18% rate, is substantially broadened to include edible oils, confectionery, sauces, footwear, sanitary ware, plastic products, cosmetics, household utensils, and ceramic products. New exemptions cover contraceptives, female sanitary products, and specified electric vehicle imports. In federal excise duty, mandatory electronic invoicing is introduced for excisable goods, and special duties of 40-41% target imported luxury vehicles exceeding 2000cc. For customs, tariff rationalization under the National Tariff Policy 2025-30 reduces duties on 92 tariff lines across multiple industrial sectors, additional customs duty rates are lowered in stages, and regulatory duties are capped at 20%. [kpmg.com], [fbr.gov.pk]
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