ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to impose tax on various social media platform posts including twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even Snapchat.
FBR’s outgoing chairman Dr Muhammad Arshad, in a meeting, said, “Let me be very clear, the purpose of this move is to generate much needed revenue only and not in the slightest to discourage unnecessary posts that are critical of the government and the FBR itself.”
Sources said that the proposed tax will be levied on number of words for written posts, number of pixels for pictures and number of MB’s for videos.
According to reports strategic partnerships have been finalised with all major Telco’s and Internet service providers to ensure accurate billing. In addition to this the FBR got valuable input from the Interior Ministry to decide on the different brackets of taxes given the ministry’s unquestionable ability to differentiate between garden variety trolling and national security risks.
