Part II, Second Schedule of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 has provided reduced rates of tax for incomes or classes of income, or persons or classes of persons.
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) issued the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 updated up to June 30, 2021. The Ordinance incorporated amendments brought through Finance Act, 2021.
Incomes or classes of income, or persons or classes of persons, enumerated below, shall be liable to tax at such rates which are less than the rates specified in the First Schedule, as are specified hereunder:
(5A) The rate of tax to be deducted under sub-section (2) of section 152, in respect of payments from profit on debt payable to a non-resident person having no permanent establishment in Pakistan, other than those covered under clauses (78) and (79) of Part I of the Second Schedule, shall be 10% of the gross amount paid:
Provided that tax deducted on profit on debt from debt instruments, Government securities including treasury bills and Pakistan Investment Bonds shall be final tax on profit on debt payable to a non-resident person having no permanent establishment in Pakistan and the investments are exclusively made through a Special Rupee Convertible Account maintained with a Bank in Pakistan.
(5AA) The rate of tax to be deducted under sub-section (2) of section 152, in respect of payments to an individual, on account of profit on debt earned from a debt instrument, whether conventional or shariah compliant, issued by the Federal Government under the Public Debt Act, 1944 and purchased exclusively through a bank account maintained abroad, a non-resident Rupee account repatriable (NRAR) or a foreign currency account maintained with a banking company in Pakistan shall be ten percent of the gross amount paid:
Provided that tax deducted on such profit on debt shall be final tax.
(5AB) The rate of tax to be deducted under section 151 shall be ten percent from the profit on debt from a debt instrument, whether conventional or Shariah compliant, issued by the Federal Government under the Public Debt Act, 1944 (XVIII of 1944) or its wholly owned special purpose company, purchased by a resident citizen of Pakistan who has already declared foreign assets to the Board through a Foreign Currency Value Account (FCVA) maintained with authorized banks in Pakistan under the foreign exchange regulation issued by the State Bank of Pakistan:
Provided that the tax so deducted shall be the final tax.
(5AC) The rate of tax to be deducted under sub-section (2) of section 152 or under section 151, as the case may be, shall be zero percent of the gross amount of profit on debt paid, covered under clauses (78) and (79) of Part I of the Second Schedule.
(9AA) In respect of import of white sugar from the 25th day of August, 2020 to the 15th day of November, 2020 both days inclusive, tax under section 148 shall be collected at the rate of 0.25% as per quantity, quality, mode and manner prescribed by Ministry of Commerce during the said period.
(9AB) Tax under section 148 on commercial import of the white sugar shall be collected at the rate of 0.25% from the 26th day of January 2021 till the 30th day of June, 2021.
(9AC) Subject to quota allotment by Commerce Division, tax under section 148 shall be collected at the rate of 0.25% on import of raw sugar imported by sugar mills from the 26th day of January, 2021 to the 30th day of June, 2021 both days inclusive provided that such imports shall not exceed fifty thousand metric tons per sugar mill and three hundred thousand metric tons in aggregate by the sugar industry.
(18C) The rate of tax as specified in Division-III of Part-I of First Schedule shall be reduced to 7.5% in case of dividends declared by a company as are “attributable” to profits and gains derived from a bagasse and biomass based co-generation power project qualifying for exemption under clause (132C) of Part-I of this Schedule:
Provided that the amount of “attributable” dividends shall be computed in accordance with the following formula, namely:-
AXB/C
Where-
A is the total amount of dividend for the year;
B is the accounting profit for the year attributable to the bagasse and biomass based cogeneration power project qualifying for exemption under clause (132C) of Part-I of this Schedule; and
C is the total accounting profit before tax for the year.
Explanation.—For the removal of doubt, it is clarified that accounting profit attributable to the bagasse/biomass based cogeneration power project would be determined by the external auditor of the company and the external auditor shall issue a certificate to this effect.
(24A) The rate of tax, under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 153, from distributors of cigarette and pharmaceutical products shall be 1% of the gross amount of payments.
(24C) The rate of tax under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 153 in the case of distributors, dealers, sub-dealers, wholesalers and retailers of fast moving consumer goods, fertilizer, electronics excluding mobile phones, sugar, cement, and edible oil as recipient of payment shall be 0.25% of gross amount of payments subject to the condition that beneficiaries of reduced rate are appearing on the Active Taxpayers’ Lists issued under the provisions of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 and the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 (XLIX of 2001):
Provided that the benefit under this clause shall only be available to those Tier-1 retailers as defined under Sales Tax Act, 1990 who are integrated and configured with Board or its computerized system for real time reporting of sales or receipts.
(24CA) The rate of tax under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 153 in case of a person, other than a company, as a recipient of payment for goods supplied to Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan shall be 1.5% of the gross amount of payment in respect of supply of tea, spices, salt, dry milk, sugar, pulses wheat flour and ghee for the period commencing from the 7th day of April, 2020 and ending on 30th day of September, 2020:
Provided that this clause shall not be applicable to supply of tea, spices, salt and dry milk which are sold under a brand name:
Provided further that this clause shall not be applicable where rate of tax under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 153 is less than 1.5% of the gross amount of payment under any provisions of the Ordinance.
(24D) The rate of minimum tax under sub-section (1) of section 113 in the case of distributors, dealers, sub-dealers, wholesalers and retailers of fast moving consumer goods, fertilizer, locally manufactured mobile phones, sugar, electronics
excluding imported mobile phones, cement and edible oil shall be 0.25% subject to the condition that beneficiaries of reduced rate are appearing on the Active Taxpayers’ Lists issued under the provisions of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 and the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001:
Provided that the benefit under this clause shall be available to only those Tier-1 retailers as defined under Sales Tax Act, 1990 who are integrated and configured with Board or its computerized system for real time reporting of sales or receipts.
(27) The tax on payments under the Compulsory Monetization of Transport Facility for Civil Servants in BS-20 to BS-22 (as reduced by deduction of driver’s salary) shall be charged at the rate of 5% as a separate block of income.
(28C)The rates of tax as specified in Division II of Part-IV of the First Schedule shall be five percent in the case of a person running online marketplace as defined in clause (38B) of section 2.
(28D) The rate of minimum tax under section 113 for tax year 2020 shall be 0.5% in the case of a trader having turnover upto one hundred million Rupees:
Provided that the tax liability of traders for tax year 2019 and 2020 in case of traders who filed return of income for tax year 2018 shall not be less than the tax paid for the tax year 2018.
Explanation.- For the purpose of this clause, ‘trader’ shall mean an individual engaged in business of buying and selling of goods in the same state not include a distributor.
(28E) The rate of minimum tax under section 113 shall be 0.5% in case of a trader of yarn being an individual.
(28F) The rate of tax under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 153 in case of oil tanker contractor services shall be 2% of the gross amount of the payments.
Note: Clauses not present in the text have been deleted through various amendments.
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