Invoices & bills: FBR rolls out verification facility

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to provide a new facility, on its website, to the buyers interacting with different businesses/professionals and service providers to verify invoices or bills issued to them with FBR’s system.

The “Provision of verification facility by the Board” has been notified by the FBR through issuance of a notification.

The Board shall provide a facility on its website to the buyer of an integrated enterprise to verify if the invoice or bill issued to him by, such integrated enterprise has been communicated to the Board’s computerized System, the FBR added.

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Through the notification, the FBR has directed notified businesses to issue a real-time verifiable electronic invoice or bill for every taxable supply and service.

According to a notification issued by the FBR, the integrated enterprise shall issue a real-time verifiable electronic invoice or bill for every taxable supply and service. The invoice or bill so issued shall be retained as record for a period of sir years on electronic media as provided under section 174 of the Ordinance.

The debit note and credit note shall also be issued electronically through the integrated system and retained for a period of six years.

In case of online sales including online market place, the electronic invoices or bills shall be issued automatically and the record thereof shall be maintained for a period of six years, the FBR added.

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