{"id":81937,"date":"2025-07-31T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=81937"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:17:59","slug":"federal-government-abolished-5-percent-digital-tax-on-online-purchases-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/federal-government-abolished-5-percent-digital-tax-on-online-purchases-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government abolished 5 percent digital tax on online purchases abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD ( Rizwan Abbasi):\u00a0 The federal government has decided to abolish the 5 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fbr-clarifies-new-tax-rules-on-20-levy-for-cash-transactions-over-rs-200000\/\">digital tax<\/a> imposed on goods and services purchased online from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued a formal notification under which this exemption has been given under the Digital Presence Proceeds Act 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the notification, now digital tax will not be applicable on goods and digital services sent to Pakistan from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 percent tax exemption will be applicable on goods and services that are ordered digitally. This decision has come into effect from July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to government sources, this move will not only provide relief to common consumers in online purchases but will also promote the country\u2019s e-commerce sector and digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say that freelancers and small online businesses that hire services abroad will also directly benefit from this decision. The government has called the move a positive and timely step towards expanding the country&#8217;s digital economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD ( Rizwan Abbasi):\u00a0 The federal government has decided to abolish the 5 percent digital tax imposed on goods and services purchased online from abroad. In this regard, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued a formal notification under which this exemption has been given under the Digital Presence Proceeds Act 2025. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":81946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30460,30461],"class_list":["post-81937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-digital-tax","tag-online-purchases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81937","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81947,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81937\/revisions\/81947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}