Freelancer and IT exporter tax return
Foreign remittances hitting your account are visible to FBR whether or not you file. The question is whether they arrive documented as export receipts under the concessionary regime, or undocumented as unexplained income.
You earn from Upwork, Fiverr, direct foreign clients or a remote employer abroad, and the money lands in a Pakistani bank account.
What you get for Rs 5,000
- Export receipts mapped against bank credits and remittance advices
- Concessionary tax treatment applied where the conditions are actually met
- PSEB registration position reviewed and its effect on your rate explained
- Wealth statement reconciled to the year's remittances
- Filed on IRIS with the acknowledgement sent to you
What we need from you
- Bank statements showing all foreign inflows for the tax year
- Remittance advices or proceeds realisation certificates, where issued
- Platform earnings reports — Upwork, Fiverr, Payoneer, Wise
- PSEB registration certificate, if you hold one
- Details of property, vehicles and investments held
How it runs
- 01Send a year of bank statements
That is the starting point — the inflows are what the return has to explain.
- 02We map receipts to the regime
Which inflows qualify as export proceeds, which do not, and what rate each attracts.
- 03Computation to you first
You see the treatment and the reasoning before anything is submitted.
- 04Filed and acknowledged
Submitted on IRIS on your authorisation, acknowledgement the same day.
Questions people actually ask
Do freelancers actually have to file in Pakistan?
Yes, where income arises in or is received in Pakistan. Remittances credited to a Pakistani bank account are visible to FBR through banking data regardless of whether a return is filed, and undeclared inflows are the most common trigger for an unexplained-income notice against freelancers. Filing is also what preserves access to the concessionary treatment available to export receipts.
Is my foreign income tax-free because it is a remittance?
No. Payment for services you performed is income from those services, not a gift remittance, and the two are treated very differently. Export proceeds for IT and IT-enabled services do attract a concessionary regime rather than the normal slab rates, but that is a reduced rate with conditions attached — receipt through banking channels being the central one — not an exemption.
Does PSEB registration change my tax rate?
It can, and it is worth checking before you file rather than after. The concessionary treatment for IT and IT-enabled services exports is tied to conditions around registration and the route the proceeds take into the country. We review your actual position against those conditions and tell you plainly whether you qualify — including when the answer is no.
What if I have been earning for years and never filed?
It is recoverable and it is common. Prior years can be filed, and the sooner the unexplained inflows are given a documented source the better — the exposure grows with time and with the size of the assets those inflows funded. Send a year of statements and we will tell you the size of the problem before you commit to anything.
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