FBR cells flag ‘tax evaders’ living richly at HQ, RTO for action

• Aventador and Phantom lead the list of luxury vehicles.
• The Lahore-based travel influencer has logged over 25 trips abroad.
• Influencer upgrades from Civic to Land Cruiser V8.

Islamabad: The Lifestyle Monitoring Center of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has identified taxpayers flaunting lavish lifestyles while declaring negligible income in their returns, The News reported on Monday.

The Hive has forwarded files of additional suspected tax evaders to FBR headquarters and concerned Regional Revenue Offices (RTOs) to initiate formal proceedings.

Some people display significant assets and earnings on social media, yet report little of substance on their income tax returns.

According to the available data with The Newsthe owner of a Lahore-based fintech company owns 30 state-of-the-art vehicles worth Rs 2.741 billion, including a Lamborghini Aventador (yellow) worth Rs 300 million, a Rolls-Royce Phantom (silver) Rs 250 million, a Lamborghini Aventador30 (among others).

A travel influencer showed on social media that she traveled to more than 25 countries in the last five years, from 2021 to 2025, but declared an income of Rs 442,046 to Rs 3.79 million.

Another influencer, model and social media content creator from Islamabad has traveled to 13 countries and owns Zari Zam jewelry, several luxury clothing items from international brands, Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM bag, Gucci clothing and accessories.

Switch from a Honda Civic to a Toyota Land Cruiser V8 and they flaunt a Dior Book Tote bag, a Rolex watch, high-end winter wear, luxury accessories and expensive electrical gadgets, but have declared an income of Rs 3.5 million to Rs 5.49 million in recent years.

The FBR looked into the assets and income of potential tax evaders at a time when the tax machinery is facing an uphill task to meet its annual tax collection target of Rs 14.13 trillion. The Board is facing a deficit of Rs 274 billion in the first four months (July-October) of the current financial year.

The CEO and founder of a Fintech and digital solutions company has openly displayed a lavish lifestyle on social media with high-end vehicles and other assets. However, the audit revealed that none of the expensive vehicles acquired by the taxpayer were declared in the income tax returns.

Taxpayer was registered with FBR in 2019. Comparison of income tax returns of taxpayer and company reveals significant discrepancy.

This taxpayer revised his income from tax year 2019 to 2025. For example, he filed an income of Rs 523,493 in 2019, but revised it to declare Rs 3.4 million. It reported Rs 498,193 in initial performance in 2020, but was revised to show income of Rs 2.9 million.

He declared income of Rs 2.8 million in 2022 but revised returns declaring income of Rs 3.38 million, showed income of Rs 5.1 million and showed same in revised returns in 2023, showed nil income in 2024 but in revised returns declared income of Rs 67.9 million but his income came back. 181.14 million Rs in 2025;

Through the revised returns, he increased his venture capital from Rs 750,000 to Rs 11 million and increased the amount of gold from 10 tolas to 50 tolas.

He imported livestock worth Rs 4.9 million, which increased to Rs 10.06 million in 2025, despite owning no agricultural land and his entire life focused on information technology. It raised cash from Rs 175,000 to Rs 7.34 million and presented a collection of watches worth Rs 2.34 million.

It has 30 latest model vehicles, worth a total of Rs 2.741 billion. Each of the vehicles is worth millions of rupees. The cost of 30 vehicles alone is 937 times more than the taxpayer’s net assets as declared for the tax year 2019. The FBR found that a huge amount of hidden revenue was spent to fund this luxury-centric lifestyle.

A travel influencer and prolific international traveler from Lahore who traveled to Thailand and the UAE in 2021 declared an income of Rs 442,046 on her return.

In 2022, she traveled to Turkey, Spain, Bosnia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia (Umra) and Dubai, but declared an income of just Rs 636,866 on her return. In 2023, she traveled to Cambodia, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, United Kingdom, Azerbaijan and Malaysia but declared an income of Rs 542,988 on her return.

In 2024, he traveled to the US, Canada, various EU countries and Singapore but declared only Rs 2.9 million in return. In 2025, he traveled to the Maldives and declared an income of Rs 3.79 million in return.

The third is a prominent influencer, model and social media content creator from Islamabad and has traveled to 13 countries in the past five years including Thailand, UAE, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, UK, Iran, China, Switzerland, Singapore and Maldives.

In tax year 2022, he declared an income of Rs 3.5 million and personal expenses of Rs 0.81 million, yet in the same year he traveled to three international destinations and acquired a Louis Vuitton bag.