The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) extended on Wednesday the deadline for filing income tax returns for the tax year 2025 till October 31, 2025.
According to FBR sources, 5.1 million people have filed tax returns so far, compared to 4.6 million who had submitted returns by October 15 last year.
It is worth noting that the FBR had earlier extended the tax return filing deadline by 15 days, from September 30.
However, tax bar associations and citizens had demanded that the deadline be extended further to October 30.
On Monday, the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to extend the deadline for filing income tax returns for the Tax Year 2025 from October 15 to October 31.
FPCCI President Atif Ikram Sheikh said that in a letter to FBR Chairman Rashid Mahmood Langrial, FPCCI had highlighted the difficulties taxpayers are facing in meeting the current deadline. He noted delays in obtaining essential financial documents, persistent technical issues with the FBR portal, and problems integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems with the tax authority’s digital invoicing framework.
