⚙ Tax year 2026-27 • Phone registration

PTA Mobile Registration Tax Calculator

Brought a phone into Pakistan? Run a PTA tax check online: pick a listed model or use the C&F value from your assessment, then see every registration charge separately.

✓ Official tax sources ✓ Both ways of registering ✓ 1,007 official phone values

Your mobile device

Tax year

Exchange rate

Rs. per US$

Default: Rs. 280/USD per the SRO rate

Registration route

For a phone you carried with in your own luggage and are registering within 60 days of landing.

Device type

Phones are sorted by whether they have cellular data, not whether they have a touchscreen. If your phone goes on 3G, 4G, or 5G, you use this one. If your assessment says pure basic phone, use the other toggle.

Device condition

A used phone costs the same to register as a new one. Used device assessment values are only for imported used cellphones that already had an assessment run on them at the port. If you got your phone outside Pakistan, it still registers using the published assessment for its new retail price.

Customs value

Brand

Model

Storage

📄 Official value

US$ 955

Higher declared value (optional)

US$

Leave blank to use the published value. Where the value you declared is higher, that is the one assessed.

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Your estimated taxes

Customs value

US$ 955

Customs value (PKR)

Rs. 267,400

Customs duty

Exempt

Additional customs duty

Exempt

Regulatory duty

Rs. 17,600

Sales tax

Rs. 66,850

Income tax (section 148)

Exempt

Mobile handset levy

Rs. 16,000

Passport

Rs. 100,450

Where you register within 60 days of landing with your own passport. No income tax under section 148 is applied.

CNIC

Rs. 111,950

+ fine

For devices imported via post or past 60 days. A flat applied income tax under Sec 148 is added.

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Where each figure comes from

Six separate charges are checked. Some are exempt, and a basic phone on CNIC has one charge that published sources do not quantify. Here is what each line means:

Customs duty

Smartphones are free of customs duty, whether the handset is worth $30 or $1,500. Sourced directly to Schedule 5 to the Customs Act 1969.

Additional customs duty

Charged on most imports, but on a handset arriving in personal baggage, it is assessed at 0% under SRO 787.

Regulatory duty

A fixed amount set by the C&F band your handset falls in (over US$ 500). Every handset in the band pays the same regulatory duty amount.

Sales tax

25% of the customs value — the rate for handsets over US$ 500. The only charge here that is a percentage, so the only one that moves with the rupee value.

Income tax (section 148)

Not charged on a handset in your own baggage — the only difference between the two routes. A fixed CNIC flat fee is applied when registering on CNIC.

Mobile handset levy

A one-off fee on registering any handset, set by C&F band (over US$ 700 it is Rs. 16,000 max under Finance Act 2018/2024).

⚠ Notice: None of this money goes to PTA. PTA only checks your phone's IMEI number and blocks it if it is not registered — the charges are six separate taxes set by FBR, worked out by Customs, and paid at a bank.

The price you paid is not what you are taxed on

Every charge here is worked out from the government's dollar value for your exact phone, not from what it costs you in a shop. That official value is usually lower — which is why a calculation that starts from the retail price will tell you the bracket is bigger than it is.

Find phone's official value

The government publishes a dollar figure for your exact model and storage size. Look it up.

Turn it into rupees

Multiply that dollar figure by the official customs exchange rate to get the value everything is worked from.

See which brackets it lands in

Each charge has its own price brackets: five for regulatory duty, seven for sales tax, five for mobile levy.

Add the 6 charges up

In all: customs duty, additional customs duty, regulatory duty, sales tax, income tax, and the mobile handset levy.

PTA tax rates by phone value

The four value-banded charges for handsets. Brackets use the phone's published C&F value or the higher value on your assessment. Bands that overlap show where the band for one charge ends while the band for another charge continues.

Tax year 2026-27

Phone value	Regulatory duty	Sales tax	Income tax	Handset levy
up to US$ 30	Rs. 180	Rs. 130	Rs. 70	Rs. 100
above US$ 30 and up to US$ 100	Rs. 1,800	Rs. 200	Rs. 100	Rs. 200
above US$ 100 and up to US$ 200	Rs. 2,700	18%	Rs. 930	Rs. 600
above US$ 200 and up to US$ 350	Rs. 4,050	18%	Rs. 970	Rs. 1,800
above US$ 350 and up to US$ 500	Rs. 9,000	18%	Rs. 3,000	Rs. 4,000
above US$ 500 and up to US$ 700	Rs. 17,600	25%	Rs. 11,500	Rs. 8,000
above US$ 700	Rs. 17,600	25%	Rs. 11,500	Rs. 16,000

PTA tax on popular phones in Pakistan

Every phone here is worked out by the calculator above, using the government's dollar value for that exact model and storage size.

Phone	Official value	Sales tax	If you brought it yourself	If registering with CNIC
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 • 12 GB + 512 GB	US$ 1,489	25%	Rs. 137,850	Rs. 149,350 + fine
Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max • 256 GB	US$ 1,073	25%	Rs. 108,700	Rs. 120,200 + fine
Apple iPhone 16 Pro • 128 GB	US$ 878	25%	Rs. 95,100	Rs. 106,600 + fine
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra • 12 GB + 256 GB	US$ 1,114	25%	Rs. 111,600	Rs. 123,100 + fine
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra • 8 GB + 256 GB	US$ 766	25%	Rs. 87,220	Rs. 98,720 + fine
Apple iPhone 16 • 128 GB	US$ 706	25%	Rs. 83,020	Rs. 94,520 + fine
Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max • 256 GB	US$ 955	25%	Rs. 100,450	Rs. 111,950 + fine
Apple iPhone 15 • 128 GB	US$ 686	25%	Rs. 72,220	Rs. 83,720 + fine
Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max • 128 GB	US$ 655	25%	Rs. 70,050	Rs. 81,550 + fine
Apple iPhone 13 • 128 GB	US$ 599	25%	Rs. 66,130	Rs. 77,630 + fine
Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro • 8 GB + 256 GB	US$ 157	18%	Rs. 12,410	Rs. 13,340 + fine
Infinix Hot 30 Play • 8 GB + 128 GB	US$ 93	18%	Rs. 7,087	Rs. 7,187 + fine

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ACTUALLY ASK

PTA mobile registration tax FAQs

Who the money goes to, why the two ways of registering cost different amounts, and where the official figures run out.

Does this money go to PTA? ▾

No. None of it goes to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. PTA only runs DIRBS — the database that matches IMEI numbers to networks and sends block orders to Jazz, Zong, Ufone, and Telenor. Every rupee you pay is an import tax collected by Pakistan Customs and FBR.

Is it cheaper on a passport, and do I get a discount for registering quickly? ▾

Yes. If you register within 60 days of arriving in Pakistan with a valid passport stamp, you are exempt from the Section 148 advance income tax charge. Registering on CNIC or past the 60-day window incurs the full income tax withholding plus standard late fines.

Why does it ask for a dollar value instead of what I paid? ▾

Pakistan Customs works off official valuation rulings (SROs) published in US dollars, not store receipts or commercial market retail invoices. The calculator matches your phone against the official Directorate General of Customs Valuation lists.

What is the PTA tax on the iPhone 17 Pro Max, 17 Pro, or 18 Pro Max? ▾

Since newer unreleased flagships exceed the US$ 700 threshold, they fall automatically into the highest Tier 6 slab. The base fixed regulatory duty is Rs. 17,600, mobile levy is Rs. 16,000, and sales tax is calculated at 25% of the official published C&F valuation.

Does a used phone cost less to register? ▾

No. Under DIRBS regulations, an individual registering a phone brought from abroad pays the exact same duty whether the phone is brand new in a box or second-hand/used.

Why is customs duty showing as zero? ▾

Under the Fifth Schedule to the Customs Act 1969, mobile smartphones have a statutory 0% basic Customs Duty (CD) rate. The bulk of the tax is composed of Regulatory Duty (RD) and Sales Tax.

Can I pay in installments? ▾

No. FBR and Customs require full payment of the 17-digit PSID voucher in a single transaction via ATM, online banking, JazzCash, EasyPaisa, or 1Link banking portals.

How long do I have before the phone stops working? ▾

You have exactly 60 days from the moment a local Pakistani SIM card (Jazz, Telenor, Zong, Ufone) is inserted into the device before the IMEI is automatically blocked on cellular networks.

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