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Contract Drafting & Negotiation
Construction, supply and service contracts drafted and negotiated so obligations and payment terms are unambiguous.
Commercial, corporate, tax and regulatory advisory
Future Law Associates provides legal and corporate advisory support to the group and to external clients. The focus is commercial and industrial work — the contracts, approvals and disputes that sit behind projects rather than around them.
Engineering and construction contracts fail in predictable places: scope that was never properly defined, variations agreed on site and never papered, payment terms that do not match the programme. The practice spends most of its time preventing those problems rather than litigating them afterwards.
Being part of an engineering group is an advantage here. Advice is given by people who understand what a variation order or a delay claim actually means on site, not only how it reads on paper.
The practice also runs a dedicated tax practice — income tax, federal and provincial sales tax, withholding compliance, audits and appeals — because on most projects the tax position is decided by how the contract is written. Read about our tax practice ↓
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Construction, supply and service contracts drafted and negotiated so obligations and payment terms are unambiguous.
Company formation, shareholding, joint ventures and day-to-day commercial questions.
Licensing, statutory approvals and compliance with the regulations that apply to industrial operations.
Claims, negotiation, arbitration and litigation, with settlement pursued wherever it is the better outcome.
Contracts of employment, workforce policies and the labour law questions that arise on large sites.
Title, acquisition, leases and the land-related work that precedes development.
Four stages, and one team accountable for all of them.
We start with your commercial position and the outcome that actually matters to you.
Clear written advice with the options, the risks and our recommendation — not a list of caveats.
Contracts, filings, registrations and approvals drafted and completed properly.
Where something goes wrong, we negotiate, settle or litigate — whichever serves you best.
Tax in Pakistan is administered on two levels. The Federal Board of Revenue collects income tax, sales tax on goods, federal excise and customs duty, while each province taxes services through its own revenue authority. A business working across the country — as project businesses almost always do — answers to several of them at once.
For contractors the difficulty is rarely the rate. It is withholding at every payment, sales tax on services that changes with the province, and a contract that was signed before anyone asked how it would be taxed. By the time those questions surface at audit, the options are few.
Future Law Associates' tax practice works at the front of that process: structuring the contract, keeping compliance current and, where a dispute does arise, taking it through the appellate forums with a record that was built properly from the start.
Advisory, compliance and dispute work across federal and provincial taxes — for companies, their directors and the foreign contractors they work with.
Corporate and individual income tax under the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 — planned through the year, not assembled in the week before the deadline.
Sales tax on goods under the Sales Tax Act, 1990, and sales tax on services under each province's own law and revenue authority.
Every company that pays suppliers, contractors or staff is a withholding agent. Getting it wrong makes the payer liable for tax that was never theirs.
A notice is the start of a record, and the first reply usually shapes the whole case. We prepare it properly, with the evidence behind it.
Where an assessment is wrong, it is challenged — through the appellate forums and the courts, or through alternative dispute resolution where that settles it sooner.
Foreign EPC contractors and principals working in Pakistan face their own set of questions — best answered before the contract is signed.
Tax is cheapest to get right early. Our work follows the same four stages whether you come to us with a new contract or an open notice.
A health check of where you stand today — filings, registrations, withholding and open notices — so exposure is known, not guessed.
Contracts, invoicing and group transactions structured with tax in mind, before commitments are made that cannot be undone.
Returns filed, tax deducted and deposited, statements submitted and reconciled, on a calendar you can see.
Notices answered, audits managed and assessments appealed, with the record built from day one to support you.
This page is general information about the Pakistani tax framework, not advice on any particular situation. Tax law and rates change with each Finance Act — talk to us about your own position before acting on it.
Tell us what you need and our team will come back to you with a practical, costed way forward.
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