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Finance Act 2025: Key Amendments in Sales Tax and Federal Excise for E-commerce

  • Definition of ‘courier’ added to include delivery and cash collection in e-commerce
  • Couriers made withholding agents for e-commerce taxable activity
  • Definition of ‘abettor’ introduced to address tax fraud facilitation
  • ‘Cargo Tracking System’ and ‘e-bilty’ concepts introduced for supply chain tracking
  • Penalties for non-compliance with cargo tracking system
  • Definition of ‘e-commerce’ added for sales tax purposes
  • ‘Online Market Place’ definition updated for tax law harmonization
  • ‘Payment intermediary’ defined for tax collection on digital transactions
  • Provision for sales tax collection on e-commerce introduced

Source: download1.fbr.gov.pk

Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.

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