About this site
Pakistan's tax and customs law is public, but it is not easy to read. This site exists to close that gap, without pretending to be something it is not.
Why this exists
The Customs Act 1969 is freely available from the Federal Board of Revenue. The edition amended to 30 June 2026 is a 282 page PDF. Anyone can download it. Very few people can comfortably read it, because the operative text is interleaved with decades of amendment footnotes, and the wording that was repealed sits on the same page as the wording in force.
Making Pakistan's tax and customs law public and easy to understand, so people can follow the law instead of being confused by it.
Who writes it
Muhammad Tayyab, editor and publisher.
I want to be straightforward about this: I am not a lawyer, a tax practitioner, or an accountant, and I do not hold a finance qualification. Nothing here is written from professional expertise, and you should not treat it as though it were.
What this site offers instead is traceability. Every statement about the law is tied to a numbered section. Statutory wording is reproduced verbatim rather than paraphrased. Every page links the section it relies on and the official FBR file, so you can check the original in a few seconds rather than taking my word for anything.
What this site is not
- It is not affiliated with the Federal Board of Revenue or the Government of Pakistan, and it is not endorsed by them.
- It is not a substitute for the official document. Where this site and the FBR PDF differ, the PDF is correct and this site is wrong.
- It is not legal or tax advice, and it cannot account for your circumstances.
How to tell me I got something wrong
Corrections are welcome and I would rather hear about an error than leave it up. See thecontact page, and the editorial policyfor how corrections are handled and recorded.
How the pages are built
There are two kinds of page. Law pages and change pages are generated by software from the official FBR files, which is what keeps the statutory text faithful. Question pages are written explanations: they are drafted with AI tools from the text of the law and checked claim by claim against the sections they cite, and each page says whether that check has been done yet. Themethodology page explains both processes, including where they are known to be imperfect.