{
  "id": 4072470,
  "title": "PM asks FBR to ensure third-party audits",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/pm-asks-fbr-to-ensure-third-party-audits",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-29T01:03:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40436956/pm-asks-fbr-to-ensure-third-party-audits"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to accelerate its reform programme and ensure third-party audits of the measures being introduced. The government aims to modernize tax administration, curb evasion and smuggling, and increase revenue collection. Key pillars of the FBR reform programme include digitalization, production monitoring, and automation. Officials briefed on the meeting discussed progress on reforms such as the restructuring of Pakistan Revenue Automation Ltd (PRAL), the digitalization of the tax system, and measures to prevent smuggling. Work is underway on IRIS 3.0, a new tax operating model and central data hub, as well as efforts to improve the efficiency of the tax system, pilot automated taxation, and eventually use artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance tax collection.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}