Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Now You Pay Your Phone Tax Online

The Government has come up with new plan which help international passengers who plan on bringing more than one mobile phoned with them.
You will no longer to stand in queues to get the mobile phones registered either at airport or Customs office.

The owners will soon be able to register their mobile phoned within seconds.

The passengers will be able to bring phones to their homes without having to deal with Customs or airport official and will be able to get their phoned registered online within fifteen days of their arrival.

How to Register?

International travelers will meed to sign in to dirbs.gov.pk and submit a request for registeration.
It will ask for IMEI number for verification.
System will make sure the provided IMEI number is unique, not cloned or stolen in its database.
After confirmation system will whitelist the unique IMEI number and it will register it against your name.
In case of more than one phone owner will have to pay due tax before registering phone.

How to Pay Customs Duty?

PTA and Ministry of IT informed the Senate Committer that the international passengers will also be able to pay Customs duty/tax through web portal which will accept payments from all major banks, ATMs, mobile wallets.
For payments indivudual will have to enter CNIC, passport number and IMEI and mobile specifications.
After verification system will generate a Payment Slip Identity PSID code along with duties and taxes.
Individual will pay taxes via banks, mobile wallets or other payment source.

Online portal will ve available for testing on January 25, 2019 - PTA

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