Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has announced dropping taxes worth PKR 100Bn proposed on cellular calls and internet usage. The federal cabinet had unanimously opposed the decision to impose a PKR 1 per call Federal Excise Duty, 10 paisas per SMS and PKR 5 per gigabyte of internet data use. One of the reasons behind withdrawing these proposals was that these services are already taxed by the provinces in the form of sales tax on services and the enforcement of these measures would have raised constitutional questions.
14/6/2021