Beyond the step-by-step guides on this site, a few IRIS questions come up again and again that don’t fit neatly into any one walkthrough – account basics, password/PIN resets, session behavior, and general task mechanics. Here they are in one place. Account Basics What is IRIS? IRIS is FBR’s integrated online system covering Income Tax … Read more
If you’re a registered sales tax taxpayer, you don’t type your Sales Tax Return numbers directly into Annex-C – you add them first through IRIS’s Invoice Management module, and the return pulls them in automatically. This guide walks through adding a domestic sales invoice step by step. New to Sales Tax Returns generally? Start with … Read more
Once you log into IRIS, the dashboard can look busy – a mega menu, a row of tiles, and a set of task tabs. This guide walks through what each part actually does so you know where to look before you start a task. Not logged in yet? See our step-by-step IRIS login guide first. … Read more
If you’re required to submit a Wealth Statement alongside your income tax return – most individual filers are – you fill it in through a “116(2) (Statement of Assets/Liabilities filed voluntarily)” wizard in IRIS. This walks through the actual data-entry screens: what to add under each asset and liability type, and where each field lives. … Read more
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
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
