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 has issued an S.R.O.364 (I)2025 to amend the Sales Tax Rules here on Friday.

According to the new rules, no person engaged in the 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 analyics 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 the Central Control Unit in real time basis,  storage and archiving of data;  detection of unexpected stops; quantitative analyses of productions, and data analyics for required legal actions.