Setting up
Taxes
Menu: Taxes · Who: owner, branch manager
How tax works here
Two things make Pakistani POS tax different from the usual, and both are built in:
- The payment method picks the rate. Cash and card are taxed differently by most authorities, so every tax has two rates. A split payment blends the two in proportion to how much was paid each way, and the tax collected is reported split by method for your filing.
- A branch can file with a different authority. A company tax set applies everywhere; a branch that defines its own taxes replaces the company set entirely — it never merges. That is how a Lahore branch (PRA) and a Karachi branch (SRB) live in one company.
The page
At the top, Preview branch and two boxes — Paid in cash and Paid by card — showing what a sample amount becomes under the taxes that apply to the branch you picked. Change the branch and watch the numbers change; that is the fastest way to check your setup.
Adding a tax
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Authority | FBR, SRB, PRA, KPRA, BRA, custom, or none. Picking one fills in the name and the placeholder rates |
| Name on the receipt | What the customer sees: "Punjab Sales Tax (PRA)" |
| Cash rate (%) | Applied when the customer pays cash |
| Card rate (%) | Applied when they pay by card |
| Applies to | Everything, or only certain categories, or only certain products |
| Price already includes this tax | See below |
| Active | Turn a tax off without deleting it |
Inclusive or exclusive
- Exclusive (the box unticked) — the menu says Rs 1,000, tax is added, the customer pays Rs 1,160.
- Inclusive (ticked) — the menu says Rs 1,000 and that is what the customer pays; the tax is worked backwards out of it. Most Pakistani restaurants price this way.
Both can sit on the same line; the maths is the same one the receipt and the tax report use.
The seeded rates are placeholders. FBR 15/5, SRB 15/8, PRA 16/5 were entered so a new company can ring a taxed sale on day one. Confirm them with your authority before your first real customer and edit them here.
What the system guarantees
- Old sales never change. Every order stores its own tax snapshot per line, so editing a rate today does not rewrite last month's filing.
- The tax report groups by rate, not just by authority, because a filing is made per rate — 16% cash and 5% card appear as two lines.