FBR establishes NFC in Islamabad

The Federal Board of Revenue has announced the setup of the National Faceless Centre in Islamabad, according to Business Recorder. The Board in Council took the decision at its meeting on Friday. The centre will handle faceless audits and assessments electronically, with the aim of making tax proceedings quicker, fairer and more open for taxpayers.

Under the revised arrangement, audit cases will be chosen by a computerised system based on risk rather than by an individual officer. Each case is then allocated automatically to an officer who could be posted in any part of the country. Taxpayers will not be told the officer's identity, and that officer cannot influence which files reach him.

Every file will pass through three separate people: one conducts the audit, another makes the assessment, and a third checks quality before any order is issued. Notices, replies and hearings will take place online through the IRIS system, while physical verification or recovery, where legally required, falls to a distinct field team. The NFC's legal basis is the Finance Act, 2026, and it will be led by a Chief Commissioner Inland Revenue with separate wings for audit, assessment, quality control and field work.