Islamabad: According to Pakistan Bureau data, Pakistan's $ 1.684 billion mobile phones in July-April (2020-21) increased 63.98 percent to $ 1.027 billion in July-April (2019-20). Statistics (PPS).
During the period under review, total telecom imports increased by 43.76 percent to $ 1.923 billion from $ 1.337 billion in the current financial year.
Mobile phone imports in Pakistan increased by 212.88 percent in April 2021.
According to PBS data, mobile phone imports stood at $ 148.99 million in April 2021, compared to $ 47.619 million in April 2020.
Mobile phone imports fell 33.64 percent in April 2021 to $ 224.503 million in March 2021.
Total telecom imports to Pakistan in April 2021 increased by 111.87 percent compared to the same month last year.
Telecom imports increased to 3 193.139 million in April 2021 from $ 91.159 million in April 2020.
On a monthly basis, total telecom imports fell by 36.38 percent in April 2021 to $ 303.58 million in March 2021.
Other government policy imports during the July – April period (2020–21) increased 7.49 percent to $ 431.517 million in the current fiscal year and $ 401.430 million in 2019-20.
According to industry experts, the implementation of Device Identification, Record and Detection System (DRPS) has led to a significant increase in the legal import of mobile devices.
In addition, it has helped set up more than 33 local mobile device assembly plants.
These plants have produced over 25 million mobile devices including 4G smartphones.
With the successful implementation of DIRPS, the local assembly industry has evolved since childhood to a well-developed stage, with significant growth in local assembly of smart phones.
In 2019, only 119,639 smartphones had accumulated domestically, and by 2020 the number of such devices had increased to 2.1 million.
By the end of the second month of 2021, 1.21 million smartphones had accumulated in Pakistan.
Due to this effect of DRPS, the Government of Pakistan has introduced a comprehensive mobile manufacturing policy to promote and attract goods to Pakistan and upgrade their plants.
The PTA has issued regulations related to mobile device manufacturing (MDM) and has started accepting mobile device manufacturing applications.
This initiative will help generate more employment in this technology sector, as well as help consumers buy locally manufactured mobile devices.
The world's first open source, full-scale DRPS.
The system has the ability to identify all IMEs in Pakistan's mobile network and classify them based on their compatibility.
The Federal Reserve Board (FBR) has raised nearly 100 billion rupees with the help of the PTA, as mobile devices imported through legal channels have increased by nearly 70 percent.
According to data released by the PDA, imports of mobile devices through legal channels increased from 17.2 million in 2018 to 28.02 million in 2019 (an increase of 63 percent).
At a recent PTA conference, he stated that passengers can register a maximum of five mobile phones in their passports, and for high-end phones above 500, the fee / tax difference between passport and CNIC registration would be approximate. 9,000
Accordingly, to remove this discrepancy and restrict the registration of mobile phones against passports in one package, the WebOC module was replaced by CRF (request form).
However, during this process, the withholding tax precaution was removed, thus, the system shows a total passport tax of 36,720.
The FBR said that the issue was brought to the notice of the Director (R&A) in Karachi and Block was investigating the issue to resolve the issue and recover the previous salary / tax. The problem will be resolved on Sunday afternoon.
Due to the non-functioning of this system, the excess amount will be refunded immediately to the higher payers.
The FBR apologizes for the inconvenience caused to people in paying exorbitant fees and taxes.
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