Many leading smartphone companies like Apple, OnePlus which produce high quality smartphones are not officially present in Pakistan. Due to their devices available in market are subjected to a PTA Tax which has to be paid by the customer in order to use the telecom networks services properly. This tax was introduced by the government in order to curb the import of illegal smartphones in the country. Whenever a person buys an imported smartphone in Pakistan which has been imported, he/she has to pay a certain amount of PTA tax which makes the device PTA approved and a local telecom services provider's sim card can be used on it. However the amount of PTA tax is unjustified as it has even surpassed the actual price of some smartphones.

With this petition, we request policy makers and the government, to revise the PTA taxation rules and reduce it to a set percentage of the device cost. It is suggested that the PTA tax on smartphones should be somewhere between 20 to 25% for brand new devices and less than 20% for used devices. This will not only make it easier to accept for the general public but the compliance rate would increase drastically as more people will pay the tax in order to make their lives easier and enjoy their devices.