Mobile Industry Tax Revenues
This is in another post related to the series on economic impact of mobile telecom in Pakistan. Among other interesting items Deloitte’s report also gives information about the various types of tax revenues from the mobile companies. See how the SIM activation tax went from Rs 2000 to Rs 500 within 2 years. This aim of the study was to show that high SIM activation tax slows mobile growth and a decrease in SIM activation tax will drive mobile growth higher without impacting the government revenues negatively. It is clear from these numbers that both PTA and the Revenue board have benefited amply from the mobile growth.
The table below gives the breakdown of the numbers for the above chart. Notice that a high proportion of tax revenues comes from sales and consumer related taxes.
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