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Section 237 of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 has explained the tax ordinance empowered the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to make rules.

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.

Following is the text of Section 237 of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001:

237. Power to make rules.—(1) The Board may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.

(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:–

(a) the manner in, and procedure by, which the income, profits and gains chargeable to tax and the tax payable thereon under this Ordinance shall be determined in the case of –

(i) income derived partly from agriculture and partly from other business; or

(ii) non-resident persons;

(ab) ascertainment or determination of any income or class of income to be included in the total income of a taxpayer and any deduction from such income;

(b) fees and other charges to be paid in respect of any matter referred to in this Ordinance;

(c) anything which is to be or may be prescribed under this Ordinance;

(d) the procedure for furnishing returns and other documents as required under this Ordinance, including on computer media or through electronic medium or for issuance of orders or notices, or levy of default surcharge or penalty through electronic medium;

(da) the procedure for approval of a non-profit organization;

(e) contain provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent upon the making of this Ordinance; and

(f) penalties for the contravention of the rules made under this Ordinance.

(3) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall be, except on the first occasion of the exercise thereof, subject to the condition of previous publication.

(4) Where rules made under this section –

(a) adversely affect a person;

(b) are of a transitional nature; and

(c) are made within twelve months after commencement of this Ordinance,

these may provide that they shall take effect from the date on which this Ordinance comes into force or a later date.

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Payment to residents for use of machinery, equipment

Section 236Q of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 describes the certain authorities that are not applicable to pay advance tax.

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.

Following is the text of Section 236Q of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001:

236Q. Payment to residents for use of machinery and equipment.—(1) Every prescribed person making a payment in full or in part including a payment by way of advance to a resident person for use or right to use industrial, commercial and scientific equipment shall deduct tax from the gross amount at the rate specified in Division XXIII of Part IV of the First Schedule.

(2) Every prescribed person making a payment in full or in part including a payment by way of advance to a resident person on account of rent of machinery shall deduct tax from the gross amount at the rate specified in Division XXIII of Part IV of the First Schedule.

(3) The tax deductible under sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be minimum tax on the income of such resident person.

(4) In this section ―prescribed person means a prescribed person as defined in sub-section (7) of section 153.

(5) The provisions of sub-section (1) and (2) shall not apply to—

(a) agricultural machinery; and

(b) machinery leased by a leasing company, an investment bank or a modaraba or a scheduled bank or a development finance institution in respect of assets owned by the leasing company or an investment bank or a modaraba or a scheduled bank or a development finance institution.

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Sales tax on petrol slashed to 6.84%

Section 236O of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 outlines specific authorities exempted from the obligation to pay advance tax.

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Section 236K of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 has explained the advance tax on purchase or transfer of immovable property.

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.

Following is the text of Section 236K of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001:

236K. Advance tax on purchase or transfer of immovable property.—(1) Any person responsible for registering, recording or attesting transfer of any immovable property shall at the time of registering, recording or attesting the transfer shall collect from the purchaser or transferee advance tax at the rate specified in Division XVIII of Part IV of the First Schedule.

Explanation,—For removal of doubt, it is clarified that the person responsible for registering, recording or attesting transfer includes person responsible for registering, recording or attesting transfer for local authority, housing authority, housing society, co-operative society, public and private real estate projects registered/governed under any law, joint ventures, private commercial concerns and registrar of properties.

(2) The advance tax collected under sub-section (1) shall be adjustable:

Provided that if the buyer or transferee is a non-resident individual holding a Pakistan Origin Card (POC) or National ID Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) or Computerized National ID Card (CNIC) who has acquired the said immovable property through a Foreign Currency Value Account (FCVA) or NRP Rupee Value Account (NRVA) maintained with authorized banks in Pakistan under the foreign exchange regulations issued by the State Bank of Pakistan, the tax collected under this section from such persons shall be final discharge of tax liability for such buyer or transferee.

(3) Any person responsible for collecting payments in installments for purchase or allotment of any immovable property where the transfer is to be effected after making payment of all installments, shall at the time of collecting installments collect from the allotee or transferee advance tax at the rate specified in Division XVIII of Part IV of the First Schedule:

Provided that where tax has been collected along with installments, no further tax under this section shall be collected at the time of transfer of property in the name of buyer from whom tax has been collected in installments which is equal to the amount payable in this section.

(4) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to a scheme introduced by the Federal Government, or Provincial Government or an Authority established under a Federal or Provincial law for expatriate Pakistanis:

“Provided that the mode of payment by the expatriate Pakistanis in the said scheme or schemes shall be in the foreign exchange remitted from outside Pakistan through normal banking channels.”

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Tax rates on immovable properties for 2021-2022

Section 236I of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 tells about the collection of advance tax by educational institutes.

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.

Following is the text of Section 236I of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001:

236I. Collection of advance tax by educational institutions.— (1) There shall be collected advance tax from a person not appearing on the active taxpayers’ list at the rate specified in Division XVI of Part-IV of the First Schedule on the amount of fee paid to an educational institution.

(2) The person preparing fee voucher or challan shall charge advance tax under sub-section (1) in the manner the fee is charged.

(3) Advance tax under this section shall not be collected from a person on an amount which is paid by way of scholarship or where annual fee does not exceed two hundred thousand rupees.

(4) The term “fee” includes, tuition fee and all charges received by the educational institution, by whatever name called, excluding the amount which is refundable.

(5) Tax collected under this section shall be adjustable against the tax liability of either of the parents or guardian making payment of the fee.

“(6) Advance tax under this section shall not be collected from a person who is a non-resident and,—

(i) furnishes copy of passport as an evidence to the educational institution that during previous tax year, his stay in Pakistan was less than one hundred eighty-three days;

(ii) furnishes a certificate that he has no Pakistan-source income; and

(iii) the fee is remitted directly from abroad through normal banking channels to the bank account of the educational institution.”

Advance tax collected by educational institutes

The rate of collection of tax under section 236I shall be 5% of the amount of fee.

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Section 236H of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 explains the advance tax on sales to retailers.

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.

Following is the text of Section 236H of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001:

236H. Advance tax on sales to retailers.— (1) Every manufacturer, distributor, dealer, wholesaler or commercial importer of pharmaceuticals, poultry and animal feed, edible oil and ghee, auto-parts, tyres, varnishes, chemicals, cosmetics, IT equipment, electronics, sugar, cement, iron and steel products, motorcycles, pesticides, cigarettes, glass, textile, beverages, paint or foam sector, at the time of sale to retailers“, and every distributor or dealer to another wholesaler in respect of the said sectors”, shall collect advance tax at the rate specified in Division XV of Part IV of the First Schedule, from the aforesaid person to whom such sales have been made.

(2) Credit for the tax collected under sub-section (1) shall be allowed in computing the tax due by the retailer on the taxable income for the tax year in which the tax was collected.

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Withholding tax rates on retailers during 2021-2022