The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has granted a final 15-day extension for taxpayers who missed the income tax filing deadline, allowing them to apply online until Nov. 15, along with valid reasons for the delay.
In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), the FBR said the Active Taxpayers List (ATL) for 2025 will be determined based on returns filed for Tax Year 2024, as well as new filers for Tax Year 2025, up to Nov. 15. All taxpayers who applied for an extension through the online system have automatically been granted the additional 15 days.
The FBR has previously extended the filing deadline twice—first from Sept. 30 to Oct. 15, and then to Oct. 31—after technical glitches in the online system and a last-minute surge in portal traffic left thousands unable to submit returns on time. Those extensions were intended to ease the transition to Pakistan’s fully digital filing process, introduced under the amended Income Tax Rules earlier this year.
Under the new regulations, manual filing of income tax returns has been discontinued. However, individuals who filed manually last year are being given a one-month facilitation period to shift to electronic filing.
The FBR also moved to dispel “misleading reports” claiming that many taxpayers had been declared inactive, saying that no one who submitted an extension request within the prescribed timeframe has been removed from the ATL.
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