Question 1

Is this the exact PTA tax I will pay?

Accepted Answer

No. It is an estimate. FBR publishes each component of the tax separately and no current official document gives a combined total, so this calculator adds the published components together. The only binding figure is the Payment Slip ID that PTA's DIRBS system issues for your IMEI. Expect the real amount to differ, mainly because FBR uses its own customs value for your model rather than the price you paid.

Question 2

How can there be a figure for a phone FBR has not valued?

Accepted Answer

It is a projection, and the calculator marks it as one. The tax is charged on a customs value FBR fixes per model, and its rulings stop at the iPhone 16 and at 2023 Android phones. For newer phones such as the iPhone 17 and 18, the iPhone Duo, the Galaxy S24 to S26 and Google Pixel, we take the official US launch price and apply the share of launch price that FBR used for the newest comparable phones it has valued. If FBR values a phone differently, the tax will differ in step.

Question 3

Why is the passport figure lower than the CNIC figure?

Accepted Answer

Two things are added on the CNIC route. Advance income tax under section 148 is not charged on a phone brought in as personal baggage, but it is charged otherwise. And the customs procedure says a local applicant pays the duty and taxes plus a prescribed fine, which a 2019 notification sets at 10% of the duty and taxes. The passport route only applies within 60 days of your arrival in Pakistan.

Question 4

Does being a non-filer change the tax?

Accepted Answer

By law, yes. Anyone not on the Active Taxpayers List pays double the advance income tax, which takes that component from PKR 11,500 to PKR 23,000 on a phone in the top value band. It only matters on the CNIC route, because the passport route carries no income tax at all. Whether DIRBS checks your filer status at registration is not documented anywhere we could find.

Question 5

Why do other websites show a different PTA tax for the same phone?

Accepted Answer

Most are not computing it from the current law. Many still use a 2021-22 FBR rate sheet with 17% sales tax, and the per-model tables on popular sites reuse the same figures across different phones. Regulatory duty was cut on 1 July 2026 and few sites have updated. This calculator uses the rates in force from that date and shows each component, so you can check every line against its source.

Regulatory duty	12,000
Sales tax (18%)	20,945
Mobile handset levy	4,000
Advance income tax	0
Fine (10%)	0

Customs value	Regulatory duty	Sales tax	Income tax	Handset levy
Up to PKR 8,312	PKR 240	18%	PKR 100	PKR 100
PKR 8,312 to 27,705	PKR 2,400	18%	PKR 100	PKR 200
PKR 27,705 to 55,410	PKR 6,000	18%	PKR 100	PKR 200
PKR 55,410 to 96,968	PKR 8,800	18%	PKR 970	PKR 1,800
PKR 96,968 to 138,525	PKR 12,000	18%	PKR 5,000	PKR 4,000
Over PKR 138,525	PKR 17,600	25%	PKR 11,500	PKR 8,000, or 16,000 above PKR 193,935

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