{"id":108227,"date":"2026-04-17T17:51:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=108227"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:51:45","slug":"will-pakistan-reduce-mobile-phone-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/will-pakistan-reduce-mobile-phone-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Pakistan reduce mobile phone taxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: \u00a0As<\/span> of<\/span> April<\/span> 16<\/span>, 2020<\/span>,<\/span> there<\/span> is<\/span> reason<\/span> to<\/span> believe<\/span> that<\/span> the<\/span> government<\/span> will<\/span> be<\/span> taking<\/span> steps<\/span> to<\/span> lower<\/span> the current<\/span> amount<\/span> of<\/span> tax<\/span> imposed<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> Pakistan<\/span> Telecommunication<\/span> Authority<\/span> (<\/span>PTA<\/span><\/a>)<\/span> on smartphones.<\/p>\n

A<\/span> significant<\/span> new<\/span> development<\/span> was<\/span> made<\/span> public<\/span> yesterday<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> Standing Committee on Finance of<\/span> the National<\/span> Assembly<\/span> pertaining<\/span> to<\/span> the<\/span> issue of excessively<\/span> high<\/span> taxation on<\/span> mobile<\/span> phones<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The<\/span> committee<\/span> met<\/span> and<\/span> examined<\/span> a joint report<\/span> prepared<\/span> by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the Ministry<\/span> of<\/span> Finance that<\/span> addressed<\/span> the ongoing<\/span> issues<\/span> surrounding<\/span> mobile<\/span> phone<\/span> taxation<\/span>,<\/span> and<\/span> the<\/span> committee<\/span> voted<\/span> to<\/span> act<\/span> on<\/span> its<\/span> recommendations<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The committee recommended that the Federal Government and the Ministry<\/span> of<\/span> Finance reduce<\/span> the<\/span> current level<\/span> of<\/span> mobile phone tax<\/span> by 50%.<\/p>\n

The<\/span> tax<\/span> relief<\/span> recommendation<\/span> was<\/span> made<\/span> unanimously<\/span>.<\/span> The<\/span> FBR chairman<\/span>, PTA chairman,<\/span> and the<\/span> secretary<\/span> of finance<\/span> had all<\/span> previously<\/span> committed<\/span> to compiling<\/span> the<\/span> data<\/span> used<\/span> for<\/span> making<\/span> these<\/span> recommendations<\/span> from<\/span> a<\/span> joint study in<\/span> order<\/span> to determine<\/span> how<\/span> each<\/span> of<\/span> the taxes<\/span> imposed<\/span> on<\/span> mobile<\/span> phones<\/span> would<\/span> be<\/span> reduced<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The purpose<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> recommendations<\/span> made<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> committee<\/span> was<\/span> to<\/span> improve<\/span> consumer<\/span> affordability of<\/span> mobile<\/span> phones<\/span>. The<\/span> committee<\/span> identified<\/span> that<\/span> in<\/span> doing<\/span> so<\/span>,<\/span> this<\/span> could<\/span> lead<\/span> to<\/span> an<\/span> increased<\/span> level<\/span> of<\/span> digital inclusion for<\/span> individuals<\/span> throughout<\/span> the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: \u00a0As of April 16, 2020, there is reason to believe that the government will be taking steps to lower the current amount of tax imposed by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on smartphones. A significant new development was made public yesterday by the Standing Committee on Finance of the National Assembly pertaining to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":41894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[4210,40290],"class_list":["post-108227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-pta","tag-mobile-phone-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108228,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108227\/revisions\/108228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}