Overview

• Tax notices have been served to jewellers in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Faisalabad and Multan, with officials seeking records from unregistered and under-reporting businesses.
• FBR data now covers roughly 60,000 jewellers nationwide, of whom about 21,000 are registered and 10,524 have filed returns, according to recent reports.
• The tax body has deployed 450 Inland Revenue Service inspectors to conduct field verification of declarations and business activity.
• Officials say they seized records from a major Islamabad real estate firm during a raid that faced resistance, with the files to be used for tax assessment.
• Sources report the campaign is set to extend to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, and a list of 900 jewellers in Punjab has been prepared for action in the initial phase.