FBR has restarted its old automated sales tax refund system to handle claims of non-export sector in a move to divide load of its newly-launched technology that has been lurching for over a year. FBR allowed the processing of sales tax refund claims of non-export sector and carry-forward through sales tax automated refund repository (STARR) till 30th Jun’21. The processing of refund through STARR was stopped after the launch of fully automated sales tax e-refund (Faster), which was made fully operational with aim to clear the refund claims within 72 hours from 1st Jul’20. Since the start of the new system the exporters have been facing various problems in obtaining refunds.
6/1/2021