The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will hold a computer balloting on Thursday (September 25) for selection of audit cases up to 12 percent of total returns filed by taxpayers for the Tax Year 2013 (Income Tax)/Tax Period July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013 (Sales Tax/FED).
It is learnt that Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar will preside over the computer balloting ceremony at the FBR House. The FBR has also invited Presidents of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), Islamabad Tax Bar Association and Rawalpindi Tax Bar Association (RCCI) to witness the computer balloting. Directorate General Intelligence and Investigation Customs and Directorate General Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue will also attend the function. Chief Commissioner Inland Revenue Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU), Islamabad; Chief Commissioner Inland Revenue Regional Tax Office (RTO), Islamabad and Chief Commissioner Inland Revenue RTO, Rawalpindi are also expected to attend the function.
The result of the ballot shall be uploaded on FBR's website www.fbr.gov.pk.
Last Year, the Board had selected a total of 41,727 cases for audit without applying any parameter through random computer balloting. The FBR had also issued National Tax Numbers (NTNs) of 41,727 cases selected for audit (Tax Year 2012) through random selection. Five percent of the total return filers were selected for audit on random basis without any specific parameters. The computer ballot selected 5% or 41,727 out of the total 834,563 tax returns filed for income tax, sales tax and federal excise duty.
Past year, the system processed 23,255 income tax corporate cases and selected 1,163 cases for audit. The returns count of 711,933 income tax non-corporate cases was done on the basis of random balloting. Out of these income tax non-corporate cases, the Board selected 35,595 for audit. Total number of income tax filers for both corporate and non-corporate sectors was 735,188. Of this, the FBR had selected 1,163 corporate cases and 35,595 non corporate cases for audit. Within the category of sales tax, the total numbers of filers were 98,966 and the FBR had selected 570 companies and 4,381 non-corporate cases for audit. A total of 11,369 sales tax corporate cases were processed under random computer ballot. The system picked 570 cases for audit.
Within the category of sales tax non-corporate cases, the FBR processed 87,597 returns and selected 4,381 cases for audit. In case of federal excise duty, a total 409 returns were filed and the FBR had selected 20 cases for the audit. In case of federal excise duty corporate cases, a total of 247 cases were processed and 11 were selected for audit. The FED non-corporate cases revealed that out of 162 returns, the system picked seven cases for audit (Tax Year 2012).