FBR establishes more than 200 Tax Facilitation Kiosks for taxpayers’ facilitation

In order to facilitate the taxpayers for filing the returns of income for the tax year 2013, the FBR has established more than two hundred (200) Tax Facilitation Kiosks (KIOSKs)/Tax Facilitation Centres (TFCs) throughout the country on places like important business centres, shopping malls, offices of Traders’ Associations and important markets where maximum number of taxpayers can avail the facility. Knowledgeable and competent officers/officials have been deputed in these KIOSKs/TFCs to guide and assist the taxpayers in the filing of tax returns. The details of such KIOSKs/TFCs and the contact numbers of the personnel manning these KIOSKs/TFCs have been displayed on the FBR website (http://www.fbr.qov.pk) for the convenience of the taxpayers. These KIOSKs/TFCs shall remain operational from Monday through Saturday, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm daily. The prescribed proformae of returns and wealth statement are available on these KIOSKs/TFCs. Copies of the Taxpayers’ Facilitation Guides published by the FATE Wing of the FBR are also available for the benefit of the taxpayers. The KIOSKs/TFCs would provide education and guidance to the taxpayers, and would help the taxpayers to properly fill in the tax declarations. The taxpayers are requested to contact the nearest Tax Facilitation Kiosk/Tax Facilitation Centre in case of any difficulty or problem in filing their returns.

The RTO wise detail of the KIOSKs/TFCs is as under:-

S. No.	Name of RTO	No. of KIOSKs/TFCs
1	RTO, Sialkot	15
2	RTO Sukkur	11
3	RTO, Quetta	03
4	RTO, Karachi	08
5	RTO-II, Karachi	07
6	RTO-III, Karachi	09
7	RTO, Bahawalpur	09
8	RTO, Islamabad	08
9	RTO Peshawar	10
10	RTO, Gujranwala	12
11	RTO, Faisalabad	11
12	RTO, Lahore	13
13	RTO-II, Lahore	18
14	RTO, Multan	13
15	RTO, Abbottabad	09
16	RTO, Rawalpindi	14
17	RTO, Sargodha	16
18	RTO, Hyderabad	20
	Total	206

Mohammad Shahzad
Secretary PR