About this site

Why this exists

The Customs Act 1969 is freely available from the Federal Board of Revenue as a 279 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read it, because the operative text is interleaved with decades of amendment footnotes, and the wording that was repealed sits on the same page as the wording in force.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 source document and the page number it came from, 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

Section and amendment pages are generated automatically from the official PDF rather than written by hand, which is what keeps the statutory text faithful. Themethodology page explains the process, including where it is known to be imperfect.