ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued a list of 1136 big retailers for mandatory installation of Point of Sale (POS). The FBR issued Sales Tax General Order (STGO) No. 3 of 2022 on Tuesday.
The FBR said that through Finance Act, 2019 added a sub-section (6) to Section 8B of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 whereby a Tier-1 Retailer who did not integrate its retail outlet in the manner prescribed under sub-section (9A) of Section 3 of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 during a tax period, its adjustable tax for that period would be reduced by 15 per cent. The figure of 15 per cent has been raised to 60 per cent through Finance Act, 2021.
In order to operationalize the provision of law, a system-based approach has been adopted whereby all Tier-1 retailers who are liable to integrate but have not yet integrated, with effect from July 2021 (Sales Tax Returns filed in August 2021) are to be dealt with as per the procedure laid down in STGO No.01 of 2022 issued on August 03, 2021.
Through the latest STGO, a list of 1,136 identified Tier-1 Retailers has been placed on FBR’s portal allowing them to integrate with FBR’s system by October 10, 2021 and the procedure of exclusion from this list of 1,136 identified Tier-1 retailers shall apply as laid down in STGO 01 of 2022 dated August 03, 2021.
Upon filing of sales tax return for the month of September 2021 all notified Tier-1 retailers not having yet integrated, the input tax claim would be disallowed as above, without any further notice or proceedings, creating tax demand by the same amount.
