Taxpayers to Complete NADRA Biometric Verification At Home

In practice, the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is due to launch online biometric verification through its PakID app for individual taxpayers, sole proprietors and overseas Pakistanis in the first week of September 2026.

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• The new facility will allow eligible taxpayers to complete their required biometric verification remotely without visiting a physical verification centre.
• Once approved by the FBR, taxpayers will have an extra digital option for completing their biometric requirement.

For context, the new facility will allow eligible taxpayers to complete their required biometric verification remotely without visiting a physical verification centre.

NADRA remarked the functionality has already been developed and will produce the annual biometric verification process easier, particularly for taxpayers living abroad.

For context, the authority is additionally working with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to have PakID biometric verification formally recognized as an alternative to the existing e-Sahulat-based verification process.

Meanwhile, the development follows reservations raised by the Faisalabad Chamber of Small Traders & Small Industry over difficulties faced by individual taxpayers and sole proprietors in completing annual biometric verification, particularly overseas Pakistanis.

NADRA remarked the new facility would enable eligible users to complete biometric verification from anywhere in the world.

Meanwhile, the authority remarked the initiative is aimed at simplifying taxpayer compliance and supporting the government's digitalization and ease-of-doing-business agenda.

Nevertheless, NADRA has described the first-week-of-September launch as only tentative. The formal approval by FBR to recognize PakID as an alternative verification channel is still being pursued. Stay Connected with ProPakistani.

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Taken together, the developments around taxpayers to Complete NADRA Biometric Verification At Home point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.