The law is public. Finding it is the hard part.
FBR publishes everything — SROs, circulars, rate cards, valuation tables. It is scattered across PDFs, buried in portals, and written for people who already know where to look. TaxSurface reads it all, keeps itself current, and answers in the language you actually speak.
Searching is free, and there is nothing to sign up for. The AI Tax Expert is free too.
The clause, and what it actually means
The law is shown exactly as FBR published it — never machine-translated, never reworded. Our explanation sits beside it, clearly marked as ours, and follows whichever language you pick.
FBR sets an official value for property in each city, and uses it instead of whatever price is written on the deed. This notification changes those values for one area.
It matters if you are buying, selling, or filling in a wealth statement: the figure FBR expects is the notified value, not what you actually paid.
This amends an earlier SRO. TaxSurface links the two, so you can see what the rule said before this change — one click, no hunting.
One product, three ways of working
Your account decides what you see. Nobody is walked through questions that do not apply to them.
Individual
Salary, property, deductions, wealth statement. Six steps, each field explained — what it means, and where on your salary certificate to find it.
Business
Sole proprietor, AOP or company. Revenue and expenses in — depreciation, initial allowance and disallowances are worked out for you under the right sections.
Consultant
Every client on one screen, with their status, balance and statutory deadline. You see at a glance who still needs work and how long is left.
Free where it should be free
Looking the law up costs us almost nothing, so it costs you nothing. Preparing a return is the part that does real work for you, and that is the part we charge for.
Search and ask
- Full-text search across every crawled SRO, circular and order
- Plain-language explanation of any clause
- Amendment history — what a clause said in an earlier year
- AI Tax Expert, grounded only in real documents — it never invents a section number
Prepare and file
- Guided return preparation for individuals, businesses and companies
- Tax computed from FBR's own published rates, every figure traceable to its source
- A printable IRIS worksheet — every figure mapped to the tab it belongs in
- Client roster with statutory deadlines under section 118
A salary of PKR 2,200,000 comes to PKR 116,000 of tax under the Tax Year 2026 slabs — taken from FBR's own Withholding Tax Rate Card, not from anybody's memory. Every rate in TaxSurface traces back to the document it came from, and you can open that document.
TaxSurface prepares your return and hands you the figures. You submit them in IRIS yourself — your FBR password never reaches our server, by design.