About TaxGuide.pk
This page describes an independent information service. It is not legal advice, tax advice, or a description of the Federal Board of Revenue.
TaxGuide.pk is an independent website for people who want a clear estimate of Pakistani tax and a short explanation of the rule behind that estimate. The calculation is the product. Guides exist to explain that calculation, or to explain a tax for which a sourced rule set is not published yet.
Who operates TaxGuide.pk
TaxGuide.pk is operated as a private website. It is not a government department, a statutory body, or an office of the Federal Board of Revenue. It is not a company formed by the Revenue Division.
The name, email, phone, or WhatsApp number shown in the footer or on the contact page identifies the operator for correspondence. Those details can be updated. A change of contact detail does not make the site official, and it does not change the limits in the Terms of use.
If a registered business name is later shown on the contact page, that name is the operator for new correspondence. Until then, correspondence is with the person or firm that publishes this website.
What the site is for
The site helps a visitor estimate tax under published Pakistani rules, compare a tax year, and read a plain-language guide. It is aimed at individuals who want a starting figure, not at replacing a filing or a paid opinion.
The public calculators answer salaried questions: tax on a salary, tax on an annual income figure, take-home pay, and the same salaried rules presented as an FBR-style estimate. Guides cover topics such as PTA device tax, motor-vehicle token tax, customs duty, and federal excise when an official schedule has not been stored as a calculator rule.
Reading the site and running a calculation is free. A paid API, if one is offered later, will be described on its own terms before anyone is asked to pay. Output from that API would remain an estimate under these same limits.
How a result is produced
The website and any API call the same PHP tax engine. The engine reads the published rule set for the tax year and the taxpayer type you select. Rates are not written into the page or into your browser.
You choose the year and enter figures. The server calculates and returns a breakdown: annual tax, monthly tax, take-home pay where that is the question, the slab or rule used, and the cited source. An ordinary calculation is not saved as a profile of you.
A result is an estimate for the inputs you typed. It follows the published rule set. It does not know facts you did not enter, such as exempt income, a tax credit, a rebate, an adjustment, a minimum or final tax, or a later amendment that is not yet in that rule set.
How a source is chosen
A rule set is published only with a source. The usual source is the Finance Act for that tax year, or a rate card or withholding table issued by the Federal Board of Revenue. A bare recollection of a rate is not a source.
An editor may draft a change. A reviewer approves it. Publishing is a separate step. A new tax year does not overwrite the previous year, so a historical year keeps the version that was published for it.
Where the official text is ambiguous, or where a schedule is not available in a form the engine can apply, the site does not invent a rate to fill the gap. The topic stays in a guide until a sourced rule set exists.
Calculators and guides
A calculator is offered when a published rule set can be applied to the inputs on that page. The page names the tax year and the rule version so the figure can be traced.
A guide is an explanation. It may summarise a rate and link to the official document. A guide is not a second, hidden calculator. If the guide and a later official notification differ, the official notification prevails, and the guide should be corrected.
Short extracts from statutes, Finance Acts, and FBR documents are used for explanation and citation. The full official text remains the text published by the state. The Copyright Ordinance, 1962, and the Terms of use govern how that material and the original text of this site may be reused.
Independence from the state
TaxGuide.pk is not affiliated with the Federal Board of Revenue, the Revenue Division, the Government of Pakistan, any provincial excise, taxation, or revenue authority, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, or any court or tribunal.
Names of those bodies appear so that a source can be identified. A link to an official website is a citation. It is not an endorsement by that body, and it is not a claim that this site is an official portal.
The official income-tax filing portal is Iris, at the address published by FBR. This site does not log you into Iris, does not submit a return, does not generate a challan, and does not receive a refund on your behalf.
What this site is not
The following limits are deliberate. Each item is outside the service, even if a result looks precise:
- It is not an assessment, an amended assessment, or a demand under the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001.
- It is not a return of income under section 114 of that Ordinance, and it is not a substitute for filing on Iris.
- It is not a withholding calculation that an employer may rely on, by itself, under section 149 of that Ordinance.
- It is not a sales tax invoice or return, a federal excise computation for filing, or a customs declaration under the Sales Tax Act, 1990, the Federal Excise Act, 2005, or the Customs Act, 1969.
- It is not advice from an advocate, a chartered accountant, a cost and management accountant, or a person authorised to represent a taxpayer before FBR, a Commissioner, or the Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue.
- It is not a notice, an order, an appeal, a stay, or a wealth statement.
Who should use it, and who should get advice
The calculators are written for an individual, especially a salaried individual, who wants a starting figure under the published slabs.
They are a poor fit, without extra advice, for a business, an association of persons, a company, a non-resident with Pakistan-source income, a person with capital gains, a person claiming refunds or credits, or anyone whose income is not the simple salary the form asks for.
Nothing on the site creates the duty of care owed by a paid tax adviser. If the amount matters to a filing, a notice, a payroll run, or a dispute, check the cited source or instruct a qualified adviser admitted to do that work in Pakistan.
Languages
The public site is published in English and Urdu. Both versions describe the same service and the same published rules.
If an English legal page and its Urdu translation ever differ, the English text is the text that controls the legal meaning. The Urdu text is published so the same terms can be read in Urdu.
Mistakes and corrections
A published rate can be wrong because a source was misread, a slab boundary was entered badly, or a later SRO, notification, Finance Act amendment, or judgment is not on the site yet.
Use the correction report on a calculator if a result looks wrong. You choose whether the numbers you typed are included. You can also write through the contact page. Reports are read so the rule set can be checked. Sending a report does not create a client relationship, does not stop a statutory deadline, and does not amount to a complaint before FBR.
Pakistani law and this page
The site is about the tax law of Pakistan. The main federal laws a visitor will meet in the calculators and guides are the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, the Income Tax Rules, 2002, the Sales Tax Act, 1990, the Federal Excise Act, 2005, and the Customs Act, 1969, together with the Finance Act for the relevant year and the notifications and SROs issued under those laws.
Provincial and local charges, including motor-vehicle token tax, follow the law of the province or territory that imposes them. PTA device registration follows the rules published by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the taxes collected with the import or registration of a device.
Use of the site is subject to the Terms of use and the Privacy policy. Those pages explain how the Constitution of Pakistan, the Contract Act, 1872, the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016, and the consumer laws of the provinces and Islamabad bear on this private website. They also say, plainly, what the site does not promise.