KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has been advised to make it mandatory the filing annexure-J along with monthly sales tax returns in order to remove disparity between formal and informal sectors.
Pakistan Business Council (PBC) in its proposals for budget 2020/2021 submitted to the FBR, said that currently only certain persons as defined under Rule 14 to Sales Tax Rules, 2002 are required to file annexure J.
Annexure J requires taxpayers to file details of stock in hand in terms of value as well as quantity.
Other taxpayers are encouraged to file the same but there is no mandatory requirement as per applicable laws to file the same.
“It is feared that registered taxpayers are under reporting or suppressing their actual sales to escape the sales tax charge as currently there is no mechanism to report the details of stock (Raw material, WIP, and Finished Goods).
The PBC proposed to make it mandatory for all the taxpayers to file Annexure J along with their monthly sales tax return in order to ensure that sales are not suppressed or made without charging proper sales tax.
It said that the proposed mandatory requirement would help in removing disparity between formal and informal sectors.
