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Kasim Gillani on PTA Mobile Taxes: When Digital Policy Punishes the Citizen

Pakistan’s mobile taxes have turned smartphones into unusable luxuries. Learn why high PTA duties hurt freelancers, waste foreign exchange, and block digital growth—and why zero-rating phones may be the smarter policy.

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  • Foreign exchange is already spent

  • Duties are already paid

  • The device physically exists inside Pakistan

But when registration fees are too high, the phone becomes unusable.

That means:

  • Imported devices sit idle

  • Billions in spent foreign exchange produce zero utility

  • Citizens are forced to buy parallel low-end phones just to make calls

So now the country loses twice:

  1. Forex is spent

  2. Productivity is blocked

This is not revenue generation.
This is economic leakage.

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