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title: "FBR increases penalties for fake invoices and digital non-compliance"
description: "Most outlets reported the Federal Board of Revenue’s decision to sharply raise penalties for fake invoices and digital non-compliance. Business Recorder emphasized the introduction of harsh punishments and the focus on digital non-compliance, while Profit highlighted the specific penalty amounts and the public listing of offenders. Both outlets used similar framing, with Profit providing slightly more numerical detail."
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# FBR increases penalties for fake invoices and digital non-compliance

business · updated 12 Sep 2026, 12:21 PM PKT · 12 Sep 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets reported the Federal Board of Revenue’s decision to sharply raise penalties for fake invoices and digital non-compliance. Business Recorder emphasized the introduction of harsh punishments and the focus on digital non-compliance, while Profit highlighted the specific penalty amounts and the public listing of offenders. Both outlets used similar framing, with Profit providing slightly more numerical detail.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Profit** — [FBR raises penalties for fake invoices, digital non-compliance](https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/09/12/fbr-raises-penalties-for-fake-invoices-digital-non-compliance) · 12 Sep 2026, 12:21 PM PKT
  > Repeat failure to integrate with FBR systems can attract penalties of up to Rs5 million; fake invoice issuers face public listing and penalties
- **Business Recorder** — [Punishment for fake invoices: FBR sharply increases sales tax penalties](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40439132/punishment-for-fake-invoices-fbr-sharply-increases-sales-tax-penalties) · 12 Sep 2026, 5:32 AM PKT · 82% identical wording to the newest filing
  > ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has substantially raised penalties and introduced harsh punishments for sales tax registered persons involved in digital non-compliance and offences or using fake/flying invoices/avoiding production monitoring systems from July 1, 2026. The FBR’s sales tax budget instructions (2026-27) issued to the field formations on Friday for immediately enforci...

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2 articles from 2 outlets, 12 Sep 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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