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Pakistan: VAT on digital services
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Not supported by the free-threshold API · Local term: VAT
Last verified: 2026-11-03
Digital services are mainly taxed under provincial sales tax on services (rates ~13–16% by province); 2025 Digital Presence Proceeds Tax generally does not apply to digitally ordered goods/services supplied from outside Pakistan (FBR SRO materials)
The live free-threshold API has not merged the proposed rules for this place yet. Unverified fields are indicative only
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Threshold and rates (VAT)
- Free threshold?
- No — The live free-threshold API has not merged the proposed rules for this place yet. Unverified fields are indicative only
- Amount / measure
- —
— - Window
- No threshold window (from the first sale)
- Standard rate
- —
— - Who must register
- unverified
- Evidence of location
- Indicative only (unverified). Provincial sales tax on services often covers digital services; no uniform federal multi-proxy evidence statute confirmed for foreign B2C this pass — OECD default
- Invoicing
- Indicative only (unverified). unverified (provincial invoicing)
- Filing
- —
- Effective
- Region verify 2026-11-03
- Authority
- FBR SRO 1366(I)/2025
What Botchannels returns
- Ruleset version
2026-10-22.v1- Decision summary
- Botchannels does not open free-threshold sales here. Register (or appoint a representative) before selling.
- Product class
- Digital service
- Support status
- Not supported by the free-threshold API — The live free-threshold API has not merged the proposed rules for this place yet. Unverified fields are indicative only
How to register
- Self-register online?
- See detail — See the authority pages linked in the sources
- Resident representative / fiscal agent
- —
- Regime
- —
Steps (in order)
- —
Documents
—- Official processing time
- — (unverified)
- Official fees
- —
- Portal
- https://download1.fbr.gov.pk/SROs/20257302072529390SRO1366%28I%292025.pdf
- Local bank account
- —
- Filing frequency
- —
- Payment currency
- —
- Input VAT recovery
- —
- Portal language
- —
- Penalties
- —
Firms offering this service
No verified provider links for this jurisdiction yet. Prefer the official portal and a locally licensed tax adviser.
Region verify
Facts imported on 2026-11-03. Overall confidence: secondary. A field marked indicative is unverified and is not a decision by itself.
| Field | Summary |
|---|---|
| Evidence of customer location | Provincial sales tax on services often covers digital services; no uniform federal multi-proxy evidence statute confirmed for foreign B2C this pass — OECD default (indicative, unverified) |
| Non-resident digital tax | Digital services are mainly taxed under provincial sales tax on services (rates ~13–16% by province); 2025 Digital Presence Proceeds Tax generally does not apply to digitally ordered goods/services supplied from outside Pakistan (FBR SRO materials) (secondary) |
| Collect and remit | Platform/goods digital rules evolving under FBR 2025–26 circulars; payment withhold not confirmed as full seller relief (secondary) |
| B2C invoice | unverified (provincial invoicing) (indicative, unverified) |
| Local payment methods | no published national evidence map found (indicative, unverified) |
| Seller located in this place | unverified (indicative, unverified) |
Official sources
FBR SRO 1366(I)/2025
FBR Circular 02 of 2025-26
Last verified: 2026-11-03.
FAQ
- Is this tax advice?
- No. This page summarises region-verify notes for foreign digital sellers. It is not tax or legal advice