Karachi, December 29, 2025 – The Large Taxpayers Office (LTO) Karachi has reassigned the income tax cases of ARY Media Group to its Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) Zone, according to official documents obtained by PkRevenue. The move is part of the tax authority’s efforts to enhance scrutiny and improve compliance through specialized monitoring.
Under the new arrangement, the AEOI Zone will exclusively handle the income tax assessments of ARY Media Group. The AEOI Zone is responsible for identifying and examining foreign income, offshore assets, and cross-border financial information of resident taxpayers received under international information-sharing frameworks. Officials said this step would help ensure more focused and effective oversight of income tax matters.
At the same time, the LTO Karachi has retained the assessment of sales tax and federal excise duty (FED) cases of the media group under the jurisdiction of Commissioner Inland Revenue (CIR) Zone-III and Zone-IV. This separation of jurisdictions is aimed at streamlining tax administration by assigning different taxes to specialized units.
The LTO Karachi is the largest revenue-collecting office of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and has jurisdiction over major corporate entities for tax assessment, audit, and enforcement. It plays a central role in ensuring transparent tax recovery and compliance among large taxpayers.
The revised jurisdiction applies to several key companies operating under the ARY Media Group umbrella. These include ARY Communications Limited, ARY Films & TV Productions (Private) Limited, ARY IQ Precious Metals (Private) Limited, ARY Laguna Karachi, ARY Motors Limited, ARY Services Limited, among others.
Sources within LTO Karachi stated that the separation of income tax cases from sales tax and federal excise matters is intended to strengthen monitoring and improve tax compliance of the media group through more targeted oversight by relevant tax zones.