FBR Issues New Directions Regarding Production Monitoring at Factories

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has directed manufacturers not to remove goods from their business premises unless production went through the process of production monitoring under video surveillance. The FBR issued an S.R.O.364 (I)2025 to amend the Sales Tax Rules on Friday. According to the new rules, no person engaged in manufacturing of specified goods shall remove the production from its business premises unless it has undergone the process of production monitoring under these rules. The production of specified goods, manufactured in Pakistan, shall be monitored through video surveillance, video analytics solution and digital eye by installation of production monitoring equipment at production lines as are approved by the Board for real time capture of production process and real time collection of data that shows production through object detection and object counting. The system will be engaged in transmission of data to Central Control Unit at Board on real time basis,  storage and archiving of data;  detection of unexpected stops; quantitative analyses of productions and data analytics for required legal actions.