As many as 15 Members of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), appear to have not filed their income tax returns for the 2024 tax year, as their names are missing from the Active Taxpayers List (ATL) published on the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) website www.fbr.gov.pk.

This is fifth report in FAFEN’s ongoing series assessing the annual tax return–filing status of elected representatives across Pakistan.

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How was the filing status verified?

FAFEN checked legislators’ filing status through the ATL downloaded from the FBR website during the last week of September 2025, and FBR’s online verification system on February 9, 2026, using the provincial legislators’ National Identity Card (NIC) numbers available in nomination papers submitted for the 2024 General Elections and Parliamentarians’ Tax Directories of the FBR.

How many MPAs comply with the law?

Out of the 145 members of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, at least 62 MPAs are listed as active taxpayers, meaning their names appear on the Active Taxpayers List (ATL). In contrast, the status of 14 MPAs is marked as inactive, indicating that they did not file their annual income tax returns as required under the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001. The record of one member was not found on the FBR’s online verification portal.

The tax status of 67 members could not be verified due to the unavailability of their NIC numbers.

The non-filer MPAs all are elected on general seats. By party affiliation, 14 are identified as independent and one as Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) on the Provincial Assembly’s website.

To understand how the FBR categorizes taxpayers and what legal or financial consequences apply to non-filers, read this explanation.