The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA) has launched its official mobile application, KPRA Sahulat, on the Google Play Store, giving citizens, taxpayers, and business owners direct digital access to sales tax services and complaint redressal tools that were previously only available through in person visits or more cumbersome online processes. The app allows users to verify invoices in real time through QR code scanning and report unverified or suspicious receipts directly to the authority, a feature aimed at giving ordinary consumers and businesses a more active role in flagging potential tax evasion as they encounter it in daily transactions. It also includes an interactive sales tax calculator, offline access to Schedule II tax rates, and a live tax calendar for tracking filing deadlines, combining several previously scattered resources into a single mobile interface.
Beyond invoice verification and calculation tools, the app lets users verify registered businesses through their National Tax Number, track the status of submitted complaints, and access official notifications and taxpayer guides directly from their phones. DG KPRA Irum Naz said the app reflects the provincial government’s broader push for governance reform and improved public service delivery, framing the launch as more than just a convenience feature and instead as part of a deliberate effort to modernize how the authority interacts with the public. She said KPRA Sahulat marks a significant step toward empowering citizens of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, adding that the authority remains committed to accessible and transparent public services under the direction of Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi and Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, positioning the app within a broader provincial governance agenda rather than as a standalone technical release.
Naz said the platform gives citizens the tools to engage with tax services, exercise their rights, and raise concerns with ease, language that suggests KPRA is positioning the app as much as a transparency and accountability mechanism as a pure convenience tool for routine tax filing and verification tasks. She thanked Advisor to the Chief Minister on Finance Muzzammil Aslam and Secretary Finance Captain (retd) Kamran Ahmad Afridi for their continued support, which she said has helped KPRA develop into a leading public sector institution, crediting the broader finance leadership within the provincial government for backing the authority’s digitization push. She also credited KPRA’s in-house ICT team for conceptualizing and building the application, notable given that many similar government digital tools in Pakistan have historically relied on external vendors or consultants rather than internal technical capacity.
Naz said an iOS version of the app is in the final stages of development and will be released on the Apple App Store to extend coverage to all mobile platforms, meaning iPhone users will need to wait before they can access the same tools currently available to Android users. The Android version of KPRA Sahulat is currently available for free download on the Google Play Store, giving the bulk of Pakistan’s smartphone users, who predominantly use Android devices, immediate access to the platform’s features. Whether the app meaningfully improves compliance and reduces the burden of routine tax interactions will likely depend on adoption rates among the province’s taxpayer base and how actively KPRA promotes the tool beyond its initial launch announcement.
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