ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has clarified regarding the details of mechanism evolved by the government to monitor the number and amounts of mobile phone cards and easy load being issued or sold by the mobile telephone companies in the country for the purpose of collection of tax on the same.
FBR has stated that Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL), the IT arm of FBR in consultation with Telcos has developed a utility which requires Telcos to upload withholding data file on agreed format.
The Telcos with the intervention of PTA have agreed to upload data on the new format from August 2017. So far two cellular companies i.e. M/s Pakistan Mobile Communication Limited (PMCL) (Jazz) and M/s Pakistan Telecom Mobile Limited (PTML) (Ufone) have uploaded their data on the new format.
The data uploaded by the Pakistan Telecom Mobile Limited (PTML) contain certain errors. PRAL is in contact with PTML for removal of said errors. The remaining two companies i.e. M/s Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd. and M/s CM Pakistan (Zong) have yet to upload their data and are being pursued to complete the task at an early date.
