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Islamabad Capital Territory (Tax on Services) Ordinance, 2001, as published 1 July 2019

This is the Islamabad Capital Territory (Tax on Services) Ordinance, 2001 as it stood on 1 July 2019. It runs to 12 pages and contains 4 sections, with 0 amendment footnotes.

What this document is

Published by the Federal Board of Revenue as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory (Tax on Services) Ordinance, 2001 collection. A consolidation of this kind folds every amendment made up to its cover date into the text, so it shows the law as it stood on 1 July 2019 rather than as originally enacted.

The date above was taken from the file name rather than a consolidation statement on the cover, so treat it as approximate.

The shape of this version

The operative text holds roughly 1,733 words across 4 sections.

What changed since the previous version

The section list is unchanged from the version published 1 July 2016. That does not mean nothing happened: the footnote count moved from 0 to 0, which points to existing sections being reworded rather than new ones created.

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The full text of this version

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1. Short title, extent and commencement

-(1) This Ordinance may be called the Islamabad Capital Territory (Tax on Services) Ordinance, 2001. 1Issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice, under the signature of Mr. Justice Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, Secretary, vide Ex. Ord. Gaz.of Pak., 2001, Pt. I, P.923.

(2) It extends to whole of Islamabad Capital Territory.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Interpretation

-In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, the words and expression used but not defined shall have the same meaning as in the Sales Tax Act, 1990.

3. Scope of tax

-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, there shall be charged, levied and paid a tax know as sales tax at 2[rates specified in column (4) of the Schedule to this Ordinance] of the value of the taxable services rendered or provided in the Islamabad Capital Territory.

(2) The tax shall be charged and levied on the services specified in3[column (2) of] the Schedule to this Ordinance in the same manner and at the same time, as if it were a sales tax leviable under sections 3, 3A or 3AA, as the case may be, of the Sales Tax Act,1990. 4[(2A) The following provisions of the Sales Tax Act, 1990, shall apply, mutandis mutandis, to the services rendered or provided under this Ordinance, namely:-

(a) clause (b) of sub-section (2) and sub-sections (6) and (7) of section 3; b) serial number 2, in column (1), and the entries relating thereto of the Fifth Schedule read with section 4; c) sub-sections (2), (3), (6) and (7) of section 13; and

(d) serial number 48, in column (1), and entries relating thereto of Table 1 of Sixth Schedule read with section 13.”. 2Substituted for the words “the rate of sixteen percent” by the Finance Act, 2015 3The words brackets and figure “column (2) of” inserted by the Finance Act, 2015 4 New sub-sections (2A) added through Finance Act, 2016.

5[(2B) The tax levied under sub-section (1) shall not be applicable to regulatory and licensing services rendered or provided by an organization established by or under a Federal statute].

(3) All the provisions of the Sales tax Act, 1990, and rules made and notifications, orders and instructions issued there under shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the collection and payment of tax under this Ordinance in so far as they relate to -

(a) manner, time and mode of payment;

(b) registration and de-registration;

(d) enforcement and adjudication;

(e) penalties and prosecution; and

(f) all other allied and ancillary matters. ———————— 5 Sub-section (2B) inserted by Finance Act, 2016

6[THE SCHEDULE [See section 3(2)]

PCT Heading, if applicable 1 Services provided or rendered by hotels, 9801.1000 Sixteen percent

2 Advertisement on television and radio, 9802.1000 and Sixteen percent

(a) sponsored by an agency of the Federal or Provincial Government for health education;

6Substituted by the Finance Act, 2015. Earlier, the Schedule at the time of substitution was as under:

“THE SCHEDULE [See section 3(2)]

(a) Services provided or rendered by hotels;

(b) Omitted.

(d) Services provided or rendered by caterers.

(i) if sponsored by a Government Agency for health education;

(ii) if sponsored by Population Welfare Division relating to educational promotion campaign; and

(iii) public service messages if telecast on television by World Wildlife Funds for Nature or UNICEF.

(a) customs agents.

(b) ship chandlers.

campaign; Government under grant-in-aid agreement; and telecast on television by the World Wide Fund Children’s Fund(UNICEF) 3 Services provided by persons authorized to 9805.2000 Sixteen percent

(c) ship chandlers. 4 Courier services and cargo services by road 9808 Sixteen percent 9804.9000 5 Construction services, excluding: 9824.0000 Sixteen percent documented cost of land) not exceeding Rs. 50 million per annum.

(ii) the cases where sales tax is otherwise paid as property developers or promoters. Cantonment Boards.

(iv) construction of industrial zones, consular from income tax. tenders against foreign grants-in-aid.

(vi) Residential construction projects where the

apartments 6 Services provided by property developers and 9807.0000 Rs.100per square promoters (including allied services) excluding and yard for land the actual purchase value or documented cost respective sub- development, and of land. headings of Rs.50per square heading98.14 feet for building construction 7 Services provided by persons engaged in 9809.0000 Sixteen percent contractual execution of work, excluding:

(i) annual total value of the contractual works or supplies does not exceed Rs.50 million;

(ii) the contract involving printing or supplies of books. 8 Services provided for personal care by beauty 9810.0000 Sixteen percent parlours, clinics and slimming clinics, body 9821.4000 and massage centres, pedicure centres; including 9821.5000 cosmetic and plastic surgery by such parlours/clinics, but excluding:

(i) annual turnover does not exceed Rs.3.6 million; or

(ii) the facility of air-conditioning is not installed or available in the premises. 9 Management consultancy services 9815.4000, Sixteen percent 9819.9300 10 Services provided by freight forwarding 9805.3000, Sixteen percent or agents, and packers and movers. 9819.1400 Rs. 400 per bill of lading, whichever is higher 11 Services provided by software or IT-based 9815.6000 Sixteen percent

system development consultants. 12 Services provided by technical, scientific and 9815.5000 Sixteen percent 13 Services provided by other consultants 9815.9000 Sixteen percent research services and credit rating services. 14 Services provided by tour operators and travel 9805.5100 Sixteen percent agents including all their allied services or 9805.5000 15 Manpower recruitment agents including labour 9805.6000 Sixteen percent and manpower supplies. 16 Services provided by security agencies. 9818.1000 Sixteen percent 17 Services provided by advertising agents 9805.7000 Sixteen percent 18 Share transfer or depository agents including 9805.9000 Sixteen percent services provided through manual or electronic book-entry system used to record and maintain securities and to register the transfer of shares, securities and derivatives. 20 Services provided by fashion designers, 9819.6000 Sixteen percent whether relating to textile, leather, jewellery or display, etc. 21 Services provided by architects, town planners 9814.1000 Sixteen percent 22 Services provided in respect of rent a car. 9819.3000 Sixteen percent 23 Services provided by specialized workshops or 98.20 Sixteen percent

Including computer hard ware; car washing or similar service stations and other workshops). 24 Services provided for purposes including 98.22 Sixteen percent other similar services etc. 25 Services provided by underwriter, indenters, 9819.1100, Sixteen percent and 9819.9100 26 Services provided by laboratories other than 98.17 Sixteen percent services relating to pathological or diagnostic tests for patients. 27 Services provided by health clubs, gyms, 9821.1000 Sixteen percent 28 Services provided by laundries and dry 9811.0000 Sixteen percent cleaners. Technical analysis and testing services 9819.9400 Sixteen percent 30 Services provided by TV or radio program – Sixteen percent producers or production houses. 31 Transportation through pipeline and conduit – Sixteen percent services.

32 Fund and asset (including investment) – Sixteen percent management services. 33 Services provided by inland port operators – Sixteen percent warehouses, excluding the amounts received by way of fee under any law or by-law. 34 Technical inspection and certification services – Sixteen percent services 35 Erection, commissioning and installation – Sixteen percent services. 7[37 Valuation services; competency and eligibility – Sixteen percent services provided or rendered under a bilateral Government of Pakistan], 39 Services provided in respect of mining of – Sixteen percent minerals, oil & gas including related and allied activities 40 Services provided by property dealers and – Sixteen percent cent]

42. Services provided by car/ automobile dealers

Sixteen percent

7 Serial number substituted through Finance Act, 2016. 8 Substituted for the words “eighteen and a half” by Finance Act, 2019.

9[43. Advertisement on hoarding boards, pole signs 9802.9000 Sixteen percent and signboards, and websites or internet 44. Services provided by landscape designers 9814.4000 Sixteen percent 46. Services provided or rendered by legal 9815.2000 Sixteen percent practitioners and consultants 47. Services provided by accountants and auditors 9815.3000 Sixteen percent 48. Service provided or rendered by Stockbrokers, 9819.1000, Sixteen percent 9819.9090 49. Services provided by race clubs: - - Sixteen percent Entry/ admission and other services 50. Services provided or rendered by corporate 9815.9000 Sixteen percent law consultants 51. Visa processing services, including advisory or - - Sixteen percent application filing services 52. Debt collection services and other debt - - Sixteen percent recovery services 53. Supply chain management or distribution - - Sixteen percent (including delivery) services 54. Services provided or rendered by persons - - Sixteen percent engaged in inter-city transportation or carriage conduit 57. Training or coaching services other than - - Sixteen percent education services 58. Cleaning services including janitorial services, 9822.2000, Sixteen percent].

9 Serial numbers 43 to 58 added through Finance Act, 2019.