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When FBR audits your business, the same records are often examined for income tax, sales tax and withholding at the same time. We represent you throughout the audit, manage every information request, attend meetings with the auditors and keep your answers consistent across all the taxes under review.
In a tax audit, different staff answering different auditors with different numbers is a common route to adverse findings. Appointing one authorised representative to manage requests, review documents before they are handed over and attend meetings brings order to the process.
FBR can select taxpayers for income tax audit under section 177 or section 214C of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, and for sales tax audit under section 72B of the Sales Tax Act, 1990, with powers to call for records under section 176 of the Ordinance and section 25 of the Act. Withholding audits examine compliance as a withholding agent, and federal excise audits look at production, removals and, in some sectors, track-and-trace data. Provincial revenue authorities audit sales tax on services under their own laws.
As your representative, we review each notice, agree a practical timetable with the auditors, prepare and index the records requested, check them for consistency across taxes before they are submitted, attend audit meetings and reply to findings in writing. Where findings lead to a show-cause notice, we continue into the assessment stage through our tax assessment representation service.
A typical engagement starts with a short planning meeting with your finance team. We agree who holds which records, how requests will reach us and who signs off each submission. From then on, every request from every auditor is logged with its date and deadline, and nothing leaves the business without our review. That discipline is what keeps parallel audits from producing conflicting answers.
For detail on each audit type, see income tax audit and sales tax audit. If your company also needs its financial statements audited, that is a separate engagement; see statutory audit. Before an audit begins, a tax health check can show where the questions are likely to fall.
A fixed fee per audit, or a combined fee for linked audits.
We act as your single point of contact.
Every notice and date across taxes tracked.
Information requests logged and answered.
Documents indexed and reconciled before submission.
Income tax, sales tax and withholding figures aligned.
We attend with your team or on your behalf.
Written responses to preliminary findings.
Show-cause replies and appeals if needed.
These are the patterns we see when audits are not managed.
Different staff giving different answers undermines credibility.
We speak for you.Records handed over without checks raise new questions.
We review first.Turnover that differs between income tax and sales tax invites findings.
We reconcile across taxes.Unanswered requests can lead to assessments on estimates.
We log every request.Preliminary findings usually become show-cause notices.
We reply in writing.Without records of submissions, you cannot prove what was given.
We keep a log.From selection notice to closure.
We assess the notices, periods and likely focus.
Per audit, or combined.
Calendar, request log and document index set up.
Records submitted, meetings attended, queries answered.
Findings answered and next steps handled.
Simultaneous audits across taxes.
Sales tax, FED and income tax audits.
Supplier matching and withholding audits.
Audits without an in-house tax team.
Federal and provincial audits together.
Related-party and cross-border issues.
One team with accounting, tax and legal skills manages the whole audit.
One team for every auditor and every tax.
ACCA and ICAP Chartered Accountant qualifications and an FBR-registered income tax practitioner.
LLB-qualified advocate for findings and show-cause replies.
Numbers aligned before they are submitted.
Continuity from audit to appeal.
Agreed before work starts.
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Send us the notices you have received. We will map the audits, set a calendar and quote a fixed fee to represent you.
Book your free consultationThis page is general information about our services, not tax, legal or financial advice for your specific situation. Laws, rates and deadlines change with each Finance Act and official notification.