‘Illegality’ of Point-of-Sale fee throws up questions for FBR

ISLAMABAD: A nationwide nominal Rs1 Point-of-Sale (PoS) service fee on each sale invoice collected by hundreds of thousands of tier-1 retailers translates into tens of billions of rupees annually and is allegedly misappropriated by tax officials.

This fee, hardly noticed by customers, was imposed by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) about four years ago. At the time of its imposition in August 2021, it was announced that the amount so collected would be spent on promoting documentation...