Umair A R Mughal

If you’re a withholding agent – an employer, company, or anyone required to deduct tax at source and report it to FBR – you file that report through IRIS as a “165(1) Statement of withholding taxes filed voluntarily.” This is a separate filing from your own income tax return and follows its own workflow. For … Read more

If you don’t have an NTN or CNIC registered with FBR yet, IRIS lets you self-register before you can log in and file anything. This is the registration wizard – separate from actually logging in and filing your first return – and it also covers the fuller registration profile (property, business, bank account details) you’ll … Read more

Reporting Exports Through Annex-D If your business exports goods, Annex-D of your Sales Tax Return is where you report them. Exports are generally zero-rated for Sales Tax purposes, but they still need to be declared – Annex-D pulls this together from your export Goods Declarations (GDs), the same customs documentation used for imports under Annex-B, … Read more

Claiming Input Tax on Imports Through Annex-B If your business imports goods, the Sales Tax you paid at import stage is claimed as input tax through Annex-B of your Sales Tax Return – separate from Annex-A, which covers domestic purchases. Annex-B works off your Goods Declarations (GDs) rather than supplier invoices, since imported goods are … Read more

What a Null Sales Tax Return Is If your business is registered for Sales Tax but had no taxable activity – no sales, no purchases, nothing to report – for a given tax period, you still need to file something. That’s what a Null Sales Tax and Federal Excise Return is for: a simple statement … Read more

Why Bulk Import Matters for Sales Invoices If your business issues more than a handful of sales invoices a month, entering them one at a time in IRIS is slow. FBR provides an Excel template specifically for bulk-uploading Sales Tax invoice data, with a built-in “Validate” function so you can catch errors offline before they … Read more

Why Your Sales Tax Return Shows an Unexpected Figure If you’ve noticed an amount appearing under ST-Return Clause 7a on your Sales Tax Return that you didn’t expect, it’s almost never a mistake in your own filing. It means one of your buyers or suppliers hasn’t submitted their own Sales Tax return for the corresponding … Read more

Three Numbers That Confuse Almost Every Filer On the Data tab of your Sales Tax Return, you’ll see three separate sections – Sales Tax Credit, Sales Tax Debit, and Payable – each with its own Calculate button. They sound similar but represent three different things, and mixing them up is one of the most common … Read more

Where Purchase Invoices Are Managed in IRIS IRIS’s Invoice Management module lets you add and manage purchase invoice data year-round – both from registered sellers (via STWH withholding invoices) and unregistered sellers – without needing to have a Sales Tax return already open. This is a real improvement over the old e.fbr portal, where you … Read more

Why Sales Tax Returns Have So Many Annexures A Sales Tax Return in IRIS isn’t just one form – it’s a main return plus a set of annexures, each covering a specific type of transaction. Not every business needs every annexure; which ones apply depends entirely on what your business actually does during the tax … Read more