Islamabad, October 29, 2025 – The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has officially launched a comprehensive video surveillance and monitoring system for the sugar industry to enhance transparency, prevent tax evasion, and ensure accurate revenue collection.
According to the Sales Tax General Order (STGO) No. 06 of 2025, the initiative is being implemented under Section 40C (2) of the Sales Tax Act, 1990, which empowers the FBR to introduce electronic or video-based monitoring across notified manufacturing sectors. This move marks a major step toward digital transformation and transparency in Pakistan’s sugar sector.
The FBR has directed that no sugar mill will be allowed to remove its production from business premises before it undergoes video-based production monitoring. The new system must be installed and operational before the upcoming sugar crushing season begins.
To comply with the monitoring framework, sugar mills are required to procure and install Production Monitoring Equipment (PME) with advanced technical specifications. These include high-performance Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, or Huawei, with a minimum of 10,000 CUDA cores or equivalent, 16–24 GB of memory, and a boost clock speed of at least 2 GHz.
Similarly, the Central Processing Units (CPUs) must be on par with AMD Ryzen 9 7950x or equivalent, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads, along with 32 GB DDR5 RAM, and 2x1TB SSD (RAID 1) for storage. Industrial-grade PoE switches with a minimum of 16 ports and IP67 standards have also been made mandatory.
All monitoring equipment must allow seamless video analytics and integration with the FBR’s centralized Digital Eye System under Rule 150ZQS of the Sales Tax Rules, 2006.
This initiative is part of FBR’s broader digital enforcement strategy to ensure real-time tracking, reduce tax evasion, and strengthen fiscal compliance within Pakistan’s sugar manufacturing industry.