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How IT export companies are taxed in Pakistan.
The rate is the easy part. What decides whether you keep it is registration and documentation — whether your receipts arrive the way the regime requires, and whether your records can show it.
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PSEB-registered IT and IT-enabled services exporters pay a 0.25% final tax on export proceeds under section 154A, collected by your bank as the receipts land — and the Finance Act 2026 extended that regime to 2029. The gate is PSEB registration and receipts arriving through proper banking channels, which makes it a documentation problem before it is a tax one.
The regime, and what protects it.
What is the regime, exactly?
A final tax on export proceeds, collected at the bank, for registered exporters.
Under section 154A, tax on the export proceeds of services is collected by authorised dealers when receipts come in through banking channels, and operates as a final discharge of liability for qualifying exporters rather than a payment on account. The Finance Act 2026 substituted the figure 2026 with 2029 in the relevant table, extending the regime. Note that goods exports are a different rate — that withholding rose to 1.25%.
Source: Finance Act 2026 — Division IVA, Part III, First Schedule (sunset year substituted 2026 → 2029). Confirm the applicable rate for your own case before filing.
What makes or breaks the concession?
Registration, and receipts that arrive the way the regime requires.
PSEB registration is the gate — without it the concessional treatment does not apply, whatever you export. Beyond that, the receipts have to arrive through proper banking channels and be traceable to the work: contracts, invoices, remittance advices and the foreign-currency conversion behind each one. This is where export files usually fail — not on the rate, but on being unable to tie a receipt to a contract.
What does an export services book actually need?
Foreign receipts, currency and contract documentation — kept as you go.
An export-services business does not have a complicated ledger; it has a demanding one. Multiple currencies, receipts that land net of intermediary fees, contracts that span periods, and a bank that is also your withholding agent. At Par keeps that reconciled month by month so that at 30 September 2026 the return is prepared from records that already agree, rather than reconstructed. An ACCA is accountable for the work; you file on IRIS.
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Asked by Pakistan businesses.
Do I have to be PSEB-registered? +
To access the concessional final-tax treatment for IT and ITeS exports, yes — registration is the gate. Without it the treatment does not apply regardless of what you export.
Has the 0.25% regime expired? +
No. It had been due to end in 2026, but the Finance Act 2026 extended it to 2029. Confirm the rate applicable to your own circumstances before filing.
Do you handle the foreign-currency side? +
Yes — that is most of the work in an export file. Receipts landing net of fees, conversion, and tying each receipt back to its contract and invoice, kept reconciled month by month rather than rebuilt at year end.
Do you do audit? +
No. At Par keeps your books closed, reconciled and audit-ready, and does not provide audit or assurance services. An ACCA is accountable for the work, and At Par is not a chartered accountancy firm.
Does At Par file with the FBR or move my money? +
No to both. At Par prepares your books, your returns and your supporting records, and hands you a filing-ready package. You file on IRIS, and you authorize anything that moves money — At Par never moves it.
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Reviewed by an ACCA on the At Par team · Last updated 27 July 2026 · figures cited from the Finance Act 2026 and the FBR — verify current rules before filing. See our Pakistan overview.