Tax term

IRIS

FBR’s online income-tax registration and return-filing system.

Most salary returns are filed inside IRIS, and the real work happens before you log in, in the records you assemble. The checklist on this site gathers the usual items: CNIC and login details, the employer salary certificate, payslips for each payroll month, withholding certificates, bank statements, and asset and liability figures at the start and end of the year. The return then asks for income under each head, tax already deducted at source, and a wealth statement in whatever fields the current form provides. Placement matters as much as accuracy. Enter the wrong identifier or the wrong year and the Rs 72,000 of withholding you are claiming against a 2025-26 salary of Rs 1,800,000 will not agree with what the employer reported. Frequent mistakes are reusing last year’s form, reading the acknowledgement as acceptance of every figure, and handing one-time codes to somebody offering to file for you. Reach the portal through the official FBR link, keep the acknowledgement, and verify the steps and dates in that year’s instructions.

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