{"id":118013,"date":"2026-07-12T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=118013"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:20:41","slug":"punjab-govt-raises-card-payment-tax-marking-it-50-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/punjab-govt-raises-card-payment-tax-marking-it-50-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt raises card payment tax, marking it 50% relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has been readily caught running another <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/toll-tax-increased-on-motorways-and-highways-across-the-country\/\">tax relief scam<\/a> as it pushed up sales tax on digital payments by 66% on account of its marketing as \u201c50%\u201d tax relief for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>As against, it tried to pass off as if digital users would be getting tax relief of 50% on the basis that sales tax on their purchases done through digital payments would now be at 8% vis-\u00e0-vis sales tax at 16% on purchases done through cash.<\/p>\n<p>As tax expert Amer Sharif informed ProPakistani: \u201cThis is just manipulation of numbers by comparing a new 8% on digital payments to the old 16% rate on cash payments without bothering about the fact that the rate of tax on digital payments itself has been increased from 5% to 8% by the Punjab Government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was also pointing out that the old tax structure itself will have a higher tax burden for cash users of 16% as against only 8% tax Burden for Digital users, so to compare the new tax burden for Digital payment with the old cash-based tax rate will be totally unfair.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new structure, users making payments via credit\/debit card or any other digital channel will be taxed at 8%, whereas those who pay in cash will be taxed at 16%.<\/p>\n<p>However, the government has been heavily marketing this as \u201c50% tax relief\u201d. The Government of Punjab wanted to encourage digital payments and bring in better tax documentation among consumers who do not use cash to pay digitally for items\/services.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of promoting the digital payment system and documentation through this initiative is welcome, but implementation has not been optimal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has been readily caught running another tax relief scam as it pushed up sales tax on digital payments by 66% on account of its marketing as \u201c50%\u201d tax relief for consumers. As against, it tried to pass off as if digital users would be getting tax relief of 50% on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":53994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118013","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=118013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118014,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118013\/revisions\/118014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}