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INCOME TAX BASICS

Before Registration and Filing of your Income Tax Return, it is recommended that
one should establish basic understanding regarding these processes. Knowledge of

basic concepts would not only ensure that the tasks are performed easily but also in
the prescribed manner.

TAXABLE INCOME

Taxable Income means Total Income reduced by donations qualifying straight for

deductions and certain deductible allowances.

TOTAL INCOME

Total Income is the aggregate of Income chargeable to Tax under each head of
Income.

HEAD OF INCOME

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Under the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, all Income are broadly divided into
following five heads of Income:

Salary;

Income from property;

Income from business;

Capital gains; and

Income from Other Sources

RESIDENT

An individual is Resident for a Tax Year if the individual:

Is present in Pakistan for a period of, or periods amounting in aggregate to,

one hundred and [eighty-three] days or more in the tax year;

Is present in Pakistan for a period of, or periods amounting in aggregate to,

one hundred and twenty days or more in the tax year and, in the four years
preceding the tax year, has been in Pakistan for a period of, or periods

amounting in aggregate to, three hundred and sixty-five days or more; or

Is an employee or official of the Federal Government or a Provincial

Government posted abroad in the Tax Year.

An Association of Persons is Resident for a Tax Year if the control and

management of its affairs is situated wholly or partly in Pakistan at any time in

that year;

A Company is Resident for a Tax Year if :

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It is incorporated or formed by or under any law in force in Pakistan;

The control and management of its affairs is situated wholly in Pakistan at

any time in the year; or

It is a Provincial Government or a local Government in Pakistan.

NON-RESIDENT

An Association of Persons, a Company and an Individual are Non-Resident for a

Tax Year if they are not Resident for that year.

PAKISTAN SOURCE INCOME

Is defined in section 101 of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, which caters for
Incomes under different heads and situations. Some of the common Pakistan source
Incomes are as under: -

Salary received or receivable from any employment exercised in Pakistan

wherever paid;

Salary paid by, or on behalf of, the Federal Government, a Provincial

Government, or a local Government in Pakistan, wherever the employment is

exercised;

Dividend paid by Resident Company;

Profit on debt paid by a Resident Person;

Property or rental Income from the lease of immovable property in Pakistan;

Pension or annuity paid or payable by a Resident or permanent establishment of

a Non-Resident;.

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FOREIGN SOURCE INCOME

Is any Income, which is not a Pakistan source Income.

PERSON

An Individual;

A Company or Association of Persons incorporated, formed, organized or

established in Pakistan or elsewhere;

The Federal Government, a foreign government, a political subdivision of a

foreign government, or public international organization

COMPANY

A Company as defined in the Companies Ordinance, 1984 (XLVII of 1984);

A body corporate formed by or under any law in force in Pakistan;

A modaraba;

A body incorporated by or under the law of a country outside Pakistan relating to

incorporation of Companies;

An amendment has been made through Finance Act, 2013 to enlarge the scope
of definition of a Company. Now as per Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 a company
includes:

i. A co-operative society, a finance society or any other society;

ii. A non-profit organization;

iii. A trust, an entity or a body of persons established or constituted by or

under any law for the time being in force.

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A foreign association, whether incorporated or not, which the Board has, by

general or special order, declared to be a company for the purposes of this
Ordinance;

A Provincial Government;

A Local Government in Pakistan;

A Small Company

ASSOCIATION OF PERSONS

Includes a firm (the relation between persons who have agreed to share the
profits of a business carried on by all or any of them acting for all), a Hindu undivided

family, any artificial juridical person and any body of persons formed under a foreign
law, but does not include a Company.

TAX YEAR

Is a period of twelve months ending on 30th day of June i.e. the financial year

and is denoted by the calendar year in which the said date falls. For example, tax
year for the period of twelve months from July 01, 2017 to June 30, 2018 shall be

denoted by calendar year 2018 and the period of twelve months from July 01, 2018 to

June 30, 2019 shall be denoted by calendar year 2019. It is called Normal Tax Year.

SPECIAL TAX YEAR

Means any period of twelve months and is denoted by the calendar year relevant

to the Normal Tax Year in which closing date of the Special Tax Year falls. For
example, Tax Year for the period of twelve months from January 01, 2017 to

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December 31, 2017 shall be denoted by calendar year 2018 and the period of twelve

months from October 01, 2017 to September 30, 2018 shall be denoted by calendar

year 2019.

Basic concepts on Income Tax (/Downloads/?id=2747&Type=Docs) would help

answer a lot of fundamental questions, avoiding unnecessary mistakes or errors that

normally arise during Registration and Filing of Income Tax Return.

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