Breaking: Punjab Slaps 3G/4G, Imposes 19.5% Taxes on Internet Usage including PTCL Broadband/EVO

[RazorMC]

This is exactly what Pakistan needs right now. Impose more taxes and create more hurdles for anything that connects Pakistan to the world.

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Everyone will still use it... no one is going Offline...

 

[Imran Khan]

these SOBs want nation ignorant

 

[sadiqqs]

lanat ha

Everyone will still use it... no one is going Offline...

tra qusur nahi ha jis ka lader asa ho

 

[lazers]

Time has comes where Pakistan must define what is luxury and what is necessity. Only and only tax may be exempt/reduced on necessary items/services/goods and all others goods/services/items must be fairly/heavily taxed (20% is heavy tax). Considering 3G/4G, it must be declared as luxury and tax must be imposed. Same goes with auto industry where people will buy vehicle whatever, therefore heavy duties and tax must be imposed.
After all country survive on taxes and duties and Pakistan being a poor country must levy tax on all services and goods.( Considering 50% of population as salaried, their tax is already deposited without getting into ambiguity of filer vs non filer discussion)

Are you serious, I read twice to see if you were not being sarcastic.My bro is in Singapore, do you know what internet connection he has got at his home. It is 400 MB, to make it simple, you can download around 10 GB of data in under 15 minutes, and that too, very cheap. Now go and check car prices of Honda city, Camry and Camry in India and convert to PKR and see the difference. And now this b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t. Tells me that the people making these policies have really pig shit in their brains. We will never let any industry grow in PK. I was talking to a client in US, and he was on vacations in some desert and getting much much more speed on his cell phone than I get on a 4MB DSL line.

 

[Muhammad Omar]

lanat ha

tra qusur nahi ha jis ka lader asa ho
View attachment 227062

BEta jb kisi cheez ka ni pata hota na to Fazool ni bola krte yeh Picture Karachi Poilice k Flag MArch ki hai... Now kill yourself

Yeh dekh pics KArachi POlice k Flag March ki in pe me bhi CM KPK ya Imran khan ka protocol likh skta hn

Propaganda krna hai to thek se kr Chawal na mar

I Know this pics are off topic i Know Urdu language is Almost Banned

but this guy is spamming same stuff in many threads making that off topic... Please ban this Guy @sadiqqs

@Chak Bamu @Oscar

 

[mr.robot]

What is wrong in that? They Impose tax on Card Recharges and if they are doing it on 3G and 4G so what's wrong

Jaz is giving 60 Rupess pachage for whole month it will be now 70 75 rupees

So you are already paying tax on card recharge but that is not enough and you have to pay further on using Internet with that already taxed money.

Everyone will still use it... no one is going Offline...

Good step

If these Ganjaas applies tax on taking a dump, you would still support it because your salary is likely paid by them while our money is hard earned....

 

[Muhammad Omar]

If these Ganjaas applies tax on taking a dump, you would still support it because your salary is likely paid by them while our money is hard earned....

Give proof to support your Claim...

 

[mr.robot]

Give proof to support your Claim...

There is something called sarcasm to make a point.

 

[xyxmt]

If these Ganjaas applies tax on taking a dump, you would still support it because your salary is likely paid by them while our money is hard earned....

I send more money every year to support your lavish imports than what you make the entire year. So bachy you owe me, its time you start paying your buying habits I am getting old and I cant pay anymore and forget about my kids sending money back home they wont know anyone to send it to....so start paying for your own sins before its too late

 

[Rusty]

Just to give you guys some context, here is what happened when Hungary wanted to tax the internet

Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests - BBC News

Noonitoons love this because imposing tax on information means less people will informed and educated and more people will be jahils. Which is their voting block, jahil Pakistanis. Easier to do corruption that way

 

[RoadRunner401]

So you are already paying tax on card recharge but that is not enough and you have to pay further on using Internet with that already taxed money.
If these Ganjaas applies tax on taking a dump, you would still support it because your salary is likely paid by them while our money is hard earned....

In West you pay tax on every thing including but not limited to "taking a dump" as you so eloquently put it. How exactly do you think GOP suppose to pay for every day expenses. Keep barrowing, it's about time they started taxing things to pay the bills. People of Pakistan wants every thing they just don't wanna pay for it.

 

[Rusty]

In West you pay tax on every thing including but not limited to "taking a dump" as you so eloquently put it. How exactly do you think GOP suppose to pay for every day expenses. Keep barrowing, it's about time they started taxing things to pay the bills. People of Pakistan wants every thing they just don't wanna pay for it.

How about we tax the rich like Nawa and Zardari?
That is how the west does it.

 

[RoadRunner401]

How about we tax the rich like Nawa and Zardari?
That is how the west does it.

Off course they should be taxed at what ever income they earn.

 

[Thorough Pro]

Good step in right direction to increase government revenue. All developed countries impose tax on all services.

Shaboo(CM Punjab) is tax se nay baal lagwaye gi ya nayi shaadi karay gi?

Breaking: Punjab Slaps 3G/4G, Imposes 19.5% Taxes on Internet Usage :

Government of Punjab, through a SRO — also known as mini budgets — has imposed 19.5% tax on internet services over 2Mbps and for bills exceeding Rs. 1,500 per month, starting tomorrow.


With this, over 56 percent population of Pakistan will be liable to pay service taxes on internet usage for 3G, 4G, broadband, EVO or anything internet communication with speeds exceeding 2Mbps or/and if the monthly bill for their service exceeds Rs. 1,500 per month.

And this is going to get implemented straight away, starting tomorrow, i.e. May 29th, 2015.

Below is the copy of SRO according to which the tax exemption, that was earlier granted to internet services, has been withdrawn.



This Tax will Kill The Industry
I feel pity for Anusha Rehman, Ishaq Dar and Nawaz Sharif with their tall claims for efforts that they had made for auctioning 3G and 4G.

Just this morning Anusha Rehman — at an event — wasted more than 30 minutes in explaining how government is supporting 3G/4G and entrepreneurship in the country; the fact is that this government has decided to kill it all.

Considering the high growth rates of internet users in Pakistan, all the planned investment, worth billions of dollars, will be routed to other market and Pakistan will be destined for the stone age again.

Interestingly, this ruthless decision came just a week before the budget so that other provinces get enough time to get their sheets right and impose similar taxes on internet usage.

Industry’s Response
Telecom service providers are speechless at the development. When I called them up to record their responses, they were clueless, scattered and worried. Sheer amount of depression has caught up the market because it knows the damage this tax is going to do to people, businesses and the country.

One thing they are clear about is to reject this tax. While they are uncertain about the way of rejecting it, but they have apparently decided to not play in the hands of the government.

They said that Pakistan waited for more than 5 years to launch 3G and 4G, and now when conditions are just about to settle down, this tax is going to take us back to where we had started.

Just in case if you don’t know, Pakistan’s internet penetration is lowest in the region.

One official of a telecom company commented:

“It is such a shame that politicians, who prefer their personal pockets over national economy, are such short sighted that they preferred killing the internet industry, eCommerce, m-banking, entrepreneurship and almost entire economy for meeting budgetary deficits.”

Another top level official, said:

This tax has shocked the industry. Telecom companies didn’t invest more than $1.5 billion dollars in Pakistan for 3G and 4G just to face 20% tax on internet.

What to Do Now?
ACT. Respond to this tax by raising your voice, on all available and possible platforms. Call up TV stations, radio stations and express your concerns. Take it to Facebook, and express your feelings. Call up your influential friends and ask them to play a role.

You have to do it now, right now!

We are updating this story in real time.