About PakTax Tools
Effective: 19 October 2026
PakTax Tools is an independent website that estimates Pakistan salary tax from the salaried-individual schedule published for each tax year, and explains the result in plain language.
The site is maintained by Khadija Ali, who writes the pages, transcribes the tax tables, and checks the calculators. She is a student of information technology at the Faculty of Computer and Information Technology, University of the Punjab, and she is not a chartered accountant, a tax adviser, or a lawyer — the site does not present itself as one. What it tries to do is make a published schedule usable: enter a salary, see the tax the bands produce, and understand which band and which rate that number came from.
The numbers come from Federal Board of Revenue documents. Each tax year on the site is read from the Finance Bill and the Salient Features of the Budget for that year, then re-read against the enacted Finance Act, and compared with at least one independent reproduction of the same table before it is published. The documents used, and the date the comparison was made, are printed beside the figures on the pages that use them, and the whole method is described on the verification page.
Two tax years are covered — the current one and the one before it — so a Budget change can be shown as a comparison instead of an unexplained jump. The calculator works on annual taxable income, splits the tax into twelve instalments the way a payroll does, and states its effective and marginal rates separately, because those two numbers answer different questions.
What the site is not: it is not a service of the Federal Board of Revenue or any government department, and it has no access to your return, your employer payroll, or your other income. An estimate here applies one schedule to the figures you type in. It cannot see reliefs, credits, exemptions, perquisites, or the provisions that sit outside the salaried table, and it cannot tell you what you will actually be assessed.
Everything here is free to use, in English and Urdu, without an account. The site may show advertising, and sponsors have no role in deciding which figures are published or what a page concludes. Reports that a number is wrong or out of date are the most useful messages this site receives, and they are handled through the contact page.
How a figure gets published
- 1.The bands are read from the Finance Bill and the Salient Features of the Budget for that year, the documents FBR itself releases — not from a news summary.
- 2.They are re-read against the enacted Finance Act once it exists, because thresholds and rates do sometimes move between the two.
- 3.The tax is then produced by the same code the calculator runs, under tests that assert each band’s fixed amount equals the tax the band before it reaches at its top.
- 4.The table is compared with at least one independent reproduction before the year is marked verified, and the documents and the date of that check are printed beside the figures on every page that uses them.
Read the full method, and the limits of this check, on the verification page.