If you are a freelancer or thinking to start working as a freelancer and you want to know is there any tax on freelancing in Pakistan? Then I have good news for you today.
Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated E-Tijarat Portal which is Pakistan’s first eCommerce portal. In the eCommerce Pakistan Convention which was held on Monday (21st February) in Islamabad. PM Imran Khan announced that there will be no tax amount charged from the freelancers of Pakistan who would have registered themselves as a freelancer.
PM Imran Khan said that the future of this world is going towards digitalization very fastly and our Pakistan’s youth should never miss the opportunities in this revolution of technology.
“IT exports are increasing and in coming years Pakistan can achieve Rs50 billion IT export’s target. It seems like our youth is taking advantage of this technology.”
“We will keep giving incentives and we will remove all the barriers from the way of our youth so that we can properly facilitate our youth and give them the opportunity to get the advantage from this technology’s revolution.”
He said let me give you good news today and then he announced that we have decided that there will be zero tax for the freelancers, and this zero tax will be only for the registered freelancers.
I hope this statement of the Prime Minister has answered your question “Is there any tax on freelancing in Pakistan?”
“People like Bill Gates are very lucky. Bill Gates work for humanity, even he has earned lots of money but he decided that he will spend his resources for the help of humanity. In Pakistan, he assisted a lot in the eradication of poliovirus. He was in touch with me about the poliovirus. Last year there was not even a single case reported for the poliovirus.”
“I invited Bill Gates to visit Pakistan. My interest was to take his assistance and advice for Pakistan’s IT sector. There will be good news soon in the coming days”
“Whenever our Pakistani nation gets the chance to prove themselves in any field, they prove it.”
Imran Khan said that IT also gives the opportunity to the females and they can also earn money in IT sectors just working from their homes. He also gave an example of a girl “Nadia” who lives in Gilgit-Baltistan and earns online by freelancing and she works from her home. Similarly, other females can also get success in the IT sector and can earn and help their families.
