Tax filing made simple for every Pakistani

Pakistan's tax law changes every year with the federal Finance Act, and provincial budgets layer additional changes on stamp duty, CVT, and property valuation tables. We treat every page on Easy Tax Online as a working document that needs to be reconciled against the latest legal source. Our process for every guide, calculator, and FAQ goes through four stages:

1. Source pull. Every numeric claim - slab rate, threshold, withholding rate, deadline - is traced back to the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 (with amendments), the applicable Finance Act, SROs published by FBR, or an official FBR circular. We do not cite secondary sources.
2. Worked example. Every calculator is tested against at least one fully worked numerical example published by FBR or in a credible legal commentary (e.g., Synergy, ICAP, ICMA Pakistan publications). The example is shown on the page so readers can verify the math themselves.
3. Cross-check with practitioners. Before publishing material changes (new Finance Act adoption, schema bumps), we cross-check our interpretation with practising chartered accountants and tax lawyers - usually by posting to professional forums and reconciling against ICAP technical opinions.
4. Visible disclaimer. Every calculator and guide carries an explicit "guidance only" disclaimer. We never claim to file on behalf of users, never claim FBR affiliation, and we surface the FBR IRIS portal (iris.fbr.gov.pk) as the authoritative submission channel.

We follow the Pakistani tax calendar. Material updates happen on a predictable cycle:

• Every June - July. The federal budget and Finance Bill are tabled in late May / early June. Within 30 days of the Finance Act being notified, we update every slab table, threshold, and rate constant in the calculators. Guides are reviewed page-by-page and the lastUpdated date is bumped.
• Every September. Tax filing season for individuals (deadline 30 September). We push live the IRIS-coded export updates if FBR has changed any form codes, and refresh the wizard's reconciliation logic.
• Quarterly. Withholding rate tables and ATL surcharge values are reviewed against the latest FBR circulars. Mutual fund CGT category definitions are reviewed against MUFAP fund manager reports.
• Continuously. The news feed is monitored for SROs and FBR notifications that change a rate mid-cycle (rare but possible). When that happens we update affected calculator constants within a few days.

Easy Tax Online is free to use. We don't charge for the calculators, the wizard, the AI assistant, or the IRIS export. We also don't sell, share, or syndicate user data - the entire tax draft lives on your device in browser localStorage and is never uploaded to our servers.

We sustain the project through three channels, in this order of priority:

1. Display advertising. We run contextual ads served by reputable ad networks. Ads are clearly distinguishable from editorial content. We do not allow advertisers to influence the content of our guides, calculators, or the AI assistant's responses.
2. Affiliate referrals to qualified accountants. For complex cases (multi-jurisdiction filings, audits, show-cause notices, large corporate returns) we may refer users to chartered accountants we trust. Where we receive a referral fee, that relationship is disclosed on the referring page. We never receive money to recommend a specific bank, broker, AMC, or insurance product.
3. Premium tools (planned). We may offer paid features for businesses (multi-year reconciliation, audit support, sales-tax modules) in future. Free features will remain free.

Editorial integrity comes first. If we get something wrong on a calculator or a guide, the fix is published the same day the error is verified - regardless of which sponsor or ad partner might prefer otherwise.