ISLAMABAD: A total of 1,442,601 women entrepreneurs and businesswomen in Pakistan filed income tax returns for the 2024 tax year.

The number of women filers, appearing on the Active Taxpayers List (ATL), stood at 1,342,097 during the tax period of 2023.

In this connection, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued “Active Women Taxpayers” data for the tax period 2024 as of July 1, 2025. The FBR data released on Monday revealed that the number of “Individual Active Women Taxpayers” declaring income from business activities stood at 161,995 during the tax period 2024, as compared to 154,195 in the tax period of 2023.

The highest number of women return filers fall under this category of individual taxpayers, whose names appear in the FBR’s ATL.

The number of Active Taxpayers (Association of Persons) with 50 percent or more women members stood at 21,529.

The number of companies with 50 percent or more women directors increased from 36,224 in 2023 to 40,019 in the tax period of 2024, the FBR data added.