We prepare and pursue income tax refund claims and exporter sales tax refunds on your behalf, keeping every application moving through FBR instead of sitting untouched.
26 Years of FBR Registration & Tax Filing ExperienceA tax refund isn't a special benefit, it's simply money that was already deducted or paid on your behalf that turned out to be more than your actual liability. It becomes refundable the moment your return is finalised and the excess is confirmed.
You're most likely owed a refund if any of the following applies to you.
Refunds only reach active, ATL-listed filers with an electronically filed return, manual returns and non-filers don't qualify. We review your withholding certificates and payment history first, so you know what you're actually owed before we file anything.
What we ask for depends on which kind of refund applies to you. Here's the starting checklist, we'll confirm anything specific to your case during our initial review.
Six steps, from confirming what you're owed to the funds landing in your account.
We confirm your Active Taxpayer status and gather the withholding certificates, CPRs, and bank details your claim needs.
We reconcile what was withheld or paid against your actual liability, so the claimed amount is accurate and defensible.
We file your refund application, Form 170 on IRIS for income tax, or a FASTER claim for exporter sales tax refunds.
We help resolve CNIC or bank account mismatches against NADRA and banking records before they stall your claim.
We follow up directly with your Regional Tax Office, responding to any clarification requests as soon as they're raised.
If a claim sits unreasonably long, we escalate, including preparing a Federal Tax Ombudsman complaint where warranted, until it's resolved.
Income tax refunds go through Form 170 on IRIS and are reviewed by your Regional Tax Office. There's no fixed statutory turnaround, so a claim can take anywhere from a few weeks to several months depending on documentation and whether FBR raises a query, and it must be filed within two years of your return date or the date the tax was paid, whichever is later.
Sales tax refunds for registered exporters and manufacturers of export-oriented goods instead run through FBR's FASTER system, built specifically to move verified, complete claims through faster than the traditional manual process. Which track applies to you depends on whether the refund arises from income tax withholding or from sales tax paid on exported goods, and we handle both.
See Our Sales Tax ServiceWe've handled refund claims and FBR correspondence since 2000, through every change to the IRIS and FASTER systems.
Salaried, business, and property-transaction income tax refunds, plus exporter sales tax refunds, we handle both Form 170 and FASTER claims.
We don't submit your claim and go quiet, we track it with the Regional Tax Office and respond the moment a query comes in.
Based in Lahore, working with individuals and businesses across Pakistan.
If the tax withheld by your employer, bank, or other withholding agents, or the advance tax you paid during the year, adds up to more than your actual tax liability once your return is finalised, the difference is refundable. This commonly happens with salaried employees, freelancers whose clients withheld tax, and anyone who paid advance tax on a property or vehicle transaction that turned out to exceed their liability.
You must first file your annual income tax return electronically through IRIS, showing the refundable amount. A separate refund application, Form 170, is then submitted on IRIS along with your withholding tax certificates, CPRs (payment receipts), and verified bank account details. Manual returns and non-filers are not eligible.
There's no fixed statutory turnaround. Straightforward salaried-individual claims with complete documentation are often resolved in a few weeks to a couple of months. Business claims, or cases where FBR raises a query, can take considerably longer, which is why active follow-up with the Regional Tax Office matters.
A refund application must be filed within two years of whichever is later: the date your return was filed (treated as the date of assessment) or the date the tax was actually paid. Claims filed after that window are generally time-barred.
Sales tax refunds for registered exporters and manufacturers of export-oriented goods run through FBR's FASTER system rather than Form 170. FASTER is built to process verified, complete claims quickly once submitted, whereas income tax refunds under Form 170 go through the Regional Tax Office and don't have a fixed processing window.
We follow up directly with the Regional Tax Office to resolve mismatched bank details, incomplete withholding certificates, or unresolved notices, which are the most common causes of delay. If a refund is unreasonably held up, taxpayers also have the option of escalating to the Federal Tax Ombudsman, and we can help prepare that complaint if it comes to it.
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