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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.

  • Make them adjustable against income tax or wealth tax

  • Make them reclaimable if a phone is lost or stolen

  • Make them transferable if a device is replaced

Right now, these charges behave like sinkholes—money goes in, accountability never comes out.

And when systems feel extractive instead of logical, people stop trusting them.

The Question No One Likes Asking

There’s a bitter joke people repeat under their breath:

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