SECP Annual Return Filing


Sales Tax Return Filing (Monthly, Quarterly, and Annually)
We at Zee Marketing also help our corporate clients. We help them file sales tax returns, get sales tax registration done, and answer to the notices sent by the government agencies regarding the sales tax concerns. Since we have a team of experienced sales tax experts and tax lawyers, we can help you manage your sales tax filing responsibilities.
Zee Marketing has its tax offices in Karachi and Islamabad. We have experienced tax attorneys who have strong understanding of the sales tax laws. They can assist you in a professional way so you can save your time and money. Our tax lawyers can also answer FBR notices related sales tax; please send the details so we can study your case.
Sales Tax is a tax levied by the Federal Government under the Sales Tax Act, 1990, on sale and supply of goods and services and on the goods imported into Pakistan.
REGISTRATION
Who is to be registered?
- All importers
- All wholesalers (including dealers) and distributors
- Manufacturers not falling in cottage industry. {Cottage industry is defined as having annual turnover below Rs.5 million and whose annual utility bill (including electricity , gas and telephone) does not exceed rupees six hundred thousand}.
- Retailers (having value of supplies of over 5 million rupees, in any tax period during the last 12 months.
- A person required under any Provincial or Federal Law to be registered for purpose of any duty or tax collected or paid as if it were a levy of sales tax, e.g. service providers like hotels, clubs, caterers, customs agents, ship chandlers, stevedores, courier services etc.
- Persons making zero-rated supplies, including commercial exporter who intends to obtain sales tax refund against his zero rated supplies.
- A person who is required to be registered by virtue of aforesaid criteria, but still avoids registration, can be compulsorily registered by the department, after proper enquiry, under sub-rule 1 of Rule 6 of Sales Tax Rules, 2006.
Procedure of Registration
The application may be submitted electronically on Form STR-1 as well as either through post or courier services to Central Registration Office (CRO).
Application can also be sent to Local Registration Office (LRO) in the form of hard copy. The LRO after proper scrutiny of documents and necessary editing of the application and particulars, electronically forwards the application to CRO.
All the columns of the Forms have to be duly filled in as per instructions given with the Form.
After verification, the Central Registration Office will issue a Registration Certificate bearing registration number and mail the same to the Registered Person, on a prescribed Form (STR-5) Office (CRO) normally verifies the contents from the data available with it, but has an authority to get an enquiry conducted through Local Registration Office, to verify contents of declaration by a person. The CRO may reject the application within fifteen days from the date, the complete application is received in CRO, under intimation to the applicant, specifying the reasons for such rejection.
