Tax Consultant in Gulberg, Lahore

The PRA problem on MM Alam Road

The single most common compliance gap we see in Gulberg is a service business registered with FBR for sales tax and not registered with the Punjab Revenue Authority at all. Restaurants, cafes, salons, gyms, marketing agencies, event companies and consultancies all supply services, and services in Punjab are taxed provincially. FBR registration does not discharge that obligation.

It usually surfaces when a corporate client asks for a PRA number before processing an invoice, or when a notice arrives covering periods already invoiced. Both are avoidable. If you run a service business in Gulberg and are not sure which authority you should be registered with, that is a five-minute question worth asking, see PRA registration.

Head offices and the compliance calendar

The companies headquartered along Main Boulevard and in the Gulberg office towers carry a compliance load that has nothing to do with how well the business is doing: annual returns and Form 29 to SECP, quarterly advance tax, monthly withholding statements, and the annual income tax return. Directors are personally on the hook for SECP defaults, which is the part that tends to focus attention. We keep the calendar so it is one calendar rather than four.

Brands that grow out of Gulberg

Lahore's restaurant and retail brands are disproportionately born here, and a striking number of them expand to Karachi or Islamabad before anyone registers the trademark. By that point the name has value, and by that point someone else may have filed it. Registering the mark early is cheap; recovering it later is not.

Working with us from Gulberg

You do not need to come to an office. Documents go back and forth on WhatsApp, we send you the computation to approve, and filing happens online. If you would rather meet, that is easy to arrange, Gulberg is central to everything.