Every tyre rolling off a Pakistani factory line is about to be counted — by a machine, in real time, with the numbers streaming straight into a government tax control room. In one of the most far-reaching digital enforcement moves of the year, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has ordered nine registered tyre manufacturers to install electronic production monitoring systems across their plants by 30 November 2026. Factory machinery will be linked directly to state revenue servers, tracking output around the clock.
The order comes under Sales Tax General Order No. 32 of 2026, issued on Friday. The goal is blunt: to close a national sales tax gap estimated at a staggering Rs3.7 trillion between what is collected today and what the state believes it is owed. Tyre manufacturing is the latest consumer-goods segment brought under automated plant surveillance — a programme that has already swallowed packaged tea, household electronics, paper and paperboard, edible oils, leather, textile spinning, tiles, packaged milk, fruit juices, bottled water and carbonated beverages.
How the Electronic Tracking Works
Approved tracking hardware and software must be fitted across every curing press, takeaway conveyor and finishing line in the nine plants. The equipment counts cured tyres, screens out uncured units, and separates genuine production runs from maintenance sessions, warm-ups and dry runs. Each product is recorded by diameter, width, tread design and weight using certified stock keeping unit data. Crucially, manufacturers cannot transport finished tyres off factory grounds unless the output passes through the electronic inspection network — the gate is, effectively, locked to unrecorded stock.
One Vendor, and Factories Foot the Bill
The FBR has selected ISSM Labelling Solutions (Pvt) Ltd as the sole authorised provider to install and run the tracking platform across all nine plants. The system streams production events directly into a central tax control room, automatically flagging unexpected stoppages, machinery breakdowns, interruptions, and any physical or software tampering. Manufacturers must supply the underlying information technology infrastructure, reliable power and network connectivity at their own cost — and also pay ongoing service fees to the authorised vendor. RetailNews Asia first reported the details of the order.
Rs3.7 Trillion Gap: Why Tyres Are Next
The tyre sector was singled out because unrecorded factory off-takes frequently leak into local wholesale distribution, officials say. Bringing factories under real-time surveillance removes the blind spots between declared production and actual output. The programme is not new — it follows earlier FBR orders placing spinning mills and other sectors under digital recording and video surveillance. Tax officials noted the list of nine is not final and will expand to every licensed tyre producer in the country, with regional field formations already ordered to add unlisted factories to the registry and submit compliance reports to headquarters.
What It Means for Prices and Retailers
For supply-chain operators and distributors, the measure squeezes out informal, off-the-books stock that has long undercut documented wholesale prices. Distributors and replacement retailers buying from these plants will face tighter paper trails on all commercial invoices — which is likely to shrink informal discounting across aftermarket tyre routes. The policy tilts the market toward fully documented suppliers, while mid-tier producers absorb the upfront compliance costs. Whether the extra cost reaches the showroom will depend on how much of it manufacturers pass on; what is certain is that every tyre they make will now be on the record.
The nine companies named in the first phase are Ghandhara Tyre and Rubber Company Ltd, Service Long March Tyres Ltd, Service Tyres (Private) Ltd, Panther Tyres Ltd, Diamond Tyres Ltd, Service Industries Ltd, Ghauri Tyre and Tube (Pvt) Ltd, Crown Tyres Ltd and United Rubber (Pvt) Ltd.
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