Telecom consumers pay Rs 19b taxes in six months Abrar Hamza

KARACHI: The telecom consumers of Pakistan paid almost Rs 19 billion to government in terms of General Sales Tax (GST) and Withholding Taxes (WHT) during first half (July-December 2016) of Fiscal Year 2016-17 (FY17), revealed the Economic Survey on Thursday. At present, telecom consumers are charged 19.