Odoo accounting and tax in Pakistan
Every Pakistan tax and accounting item we configure and test before a go-live, printed in full rather than condensed.
10 items 2 unconfirmed Printed as checked, not condensed.
Tax rules that shape an Odoo configuration in Pakistan
Each item below is one thing the tax setup has to get right before go-live.
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Federal sales tax on goods is 18%, set by section 3(1) of the Sales Tax Act 1990. Reduced rates and zero rating apply to specified goods.
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Services are not federal. Each province, plus Islamabad Capital Territory and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, levies its own sales tax on services within its jurisdiction, at rates in the 15% to 16% band. A seller operating across provinces needs a separate registration, rate set and return per authority, which is the single most common reason a stock Odoo tax setup fails here.
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Monthly sales tax return cycle: Annexure C by the 10th, payment by the 15th, and the return e-filed by the 18th of the month following the tax period.
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Manufacturers file an annual sales tax return in addition to the monthly one, due 30 September following the financial year. CNG taxpayers file quarterly.
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Section 153 of the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 makes prescribed persons withhold tax on payments for supplies, services and contracts. Rates for payees not on the Active Taxpayers List are double the ATL rate, so the ERP has to carry ATL status per vendor and pick the rate pair from it.
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Withholding on IT and IT-enabled services under section 153(1)(b) is 4% for ATL and 8% for non-ATL, per FBR's withholding rate card updated to 30 June 2025 under the Finance Act 2025.
The reporting framework your Pakistan books sit inside
What your statements have to comply with, and what that means for the chart of accounts.
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Sales tax records and documents must be retained six years after the end of the tax period to which they relate, under section 24 of the Sales Tax Act 1990. FBR's own summary page still says five years and is out of date against the Act.
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There is no SAF-T style audit file. The closest thing is Annexure C of the monthly sales tax return, which is now auto-populated from the electronic invoices cleared through the integrated system, so the invoice data model and the return draw on the same data.
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Financial statement disclosure is driven by the schedules to the Companies Act 2017, administered by SECP: the Fourth Schedule for listed companies and the Fifth Schedule for non-listed companies, with the applicable reporting framework per class of company set in the Third Schedule. SECP amends these by SRO, so the disclosure set moves.
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There is no statutory national chart of accounts. Odoo's Pakistan localization ships a basic chart, taxes, a tax report and a withholding tax report, and companies extend it themselves.
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Checked Localization notes on this page checked on 22 August 2026.
Rates, formats, thresholds and submission windows change. We configure against the rules in force at build time and confirm every figure with your accountant or tax advisor before sign-off. If a rule moves after go-live, it is a support ticket, not a rebuild. Read more on our Odoo localization service.
How we build accounting and tax for Pakistan
The delivery method behind the list above. The same four steps on a 10-user rollout and on a multi-company programme, with the depth scaled to the scope.
- 1 Chart of accounts from your accountant. We configure against the mapping your accountant signs, not a default template someone picked in the install wizard.
- 2 Every tax gets a test document. An invoice, a credit note and a period report per tax, checked against a figure your accountant produced independently.
- 3 Opening balances reconcile. Prior-period data is loaded and tied back to your last filed set of accounts before anyone posts a live transaction.
- 4 Filing outputs come out of Odoo. Reports are produced from the system, checked line by line, then handed over with a written procedure so your team runs them without us.
What we need from you to quote it
Bring these to the first call and you get a scoped, priced accounting and tax plan for Pakistan instead of a range.
- โ Your current chart of accounts and the tax codes in use today.
- โ The last filed set of accounts and the last filed return.
- โ The name of the accountant or tax advisor who signs off the configuration.
Services behind this work
The rest of the Pakistan localization detail
Each topic has its own page with the full item list, the same way this one does.
Full detail, printed as checked.
Payroll in PakistanFull detail, printed as checked.
Payments in PakistanFull detail, printed as checked.
Shipping in PakistanFull detail, printed as checked.
Pakistan country overviewServices, modules, client work and delivery for Pakistan.
Accounting and tax in other markets we cover
Running the same rollout across borders? These pages carry the same depth for each market, so you can compare before scoping a multi-country phase.
Scope accounting and tax for your Pakistan rollout.
Send us the list above with your answers against it. We come back with what is configuration, what is a connector, and what is a build, priced before the project starts.