Retailers have allegedly put on their entrepreneur hats this time to evade the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) Point of Sale (POS) system.
ProPakistani has learned that retailers are allegedly manipulating the POS system to avoid paying taxes and instead charge a higher sales value from customers. The new practice doesn’t change anything in the POS system but the payment software of retailers which then allegedly reprint the same QR codes and invoice numbers with higher sale amounts.
For example, an invoice is registered for Rs. 1,000, which is genuinely reported back to the FBR system. Retailers then allegedly print receipts with the same invoice number and QR code but change the sales amount to match the actual orders. This way, only one or two invoices are genuinely reported while the majority are not submitted to the POS servers.
This practice was confirmed through the Sindh Revenue Board’s eSales Reporting System (eSRB). A concerned taxpayer recently reported a coffee shop for allegedly being involved in stealing tax from paying consumers. The individual entered the invoice number for his purchase into the eSRB portal, which displayed a tax amount Rs. 70 lower than what he was charged, while the sales value was also small compared to the receipt allegedly handed over to him by the coffee shop.
When confronted, the shop’s manager attempted to retrieve the receipt, but the customer refused and submitted an official complaint to the FBR. The shop now faces potential fines of up to Rs. 1 million if found guilty.
FBR must properly verify all POS invoices and take action against tax thieves.
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A nation of crooked shopkeepers.
A crooked nation
Hahaha guess what who told the retailers to do so?
Tell this to govt not us .
Let ppl know what and how to report this will be much beneficial
This is fbr problem why should customers get involved in saving money for fbr.
Because ultimately Pakistan will benefit after tax collection, education, hospitals, roads, salaries everything runs from taxes.
You’re telling me I’m supposed to keep every damn invoice for an entire year?! As if I don’t have enough things to worry about…
Is there any benefit to the reporter ?
FBR is responsible for stealing the tax by retailers.
I know a retailer chain of stores who is not reporting all of his sales in FBR system. They haven’t integrated all there shops with FBR system and are just printing POS receipts with QR code. No body bothers checking the invoice and all the sale revenue and sales tax is going in there deep pockets.
Mandi House is also stealing tax because they are only receiving Cash and debit/credit cards are not allowed. Government should take action against these type of restaurants if they can. Why only salaried class is paying high taxes.
Pro pakistani is also stealing content! do your own research. jis banday ki vdo hai usko mention bhi nahi kia. Morals?
Bundu Khan bakers do this
BBQ tonight does the same thing, they issue you some provisional receipt initially with the tax amount charged it is not GST invoice, when you point them you need GST invoice then they issue the correct invoice taking too much time so you may loose interest and leave, that’s what they had done to me at lucky one mall outlet.
The governement of Pakistan makes loop holes in the system for cheating then after it guides the public how to cheat the system. In this way both the parties get their shares by cheating the end user.
So government should be punished first and then punish the second party (The retailors).