Pakistan Vehicle Token Tax Calculator 2026-27

The yearly charge your province takes to keep a vehicle registered. It is set by your provincial excise department, not the FBR, so it differs from province to province. It is not income tax and you cannot claim it back on your return.

A car up to 1,000 cc pays Rs. 20,000 once, for the life of the vehicle. From 1,001 cc to 2,000 cc it is 0.3% of the invoice price each year, and above 2,000 cc it is 0.4%. In 2025-26 those two figures were 0.2% and 0.3%, so a larger car costs noticeably more this year.

The Finance Act 2026 moved Islamabad onto invoice-price charging from 1 July 2026. A car up to 1,000 cc pays Rs. 20,000 once for the life of the vehicle; 1,001 cc to 2,000 cc pays 0.25% of the invoice price a year; and above 2,000 cc pays 0.35%.

Sindh charges a set yearly amount by engine size, not a share of the price: Rs. 1,500 up to 1,000 cc, Rs. 2,000 for 1,001–1,300 cc, Rs. 4,000 for 1,301–1,600 cc, Rs. 4,500 for 1,601–2,000 cc, Rs. 5,000 for 2,001–2,500 cc and Rs. 7,000 above that. A car up to 1,000 cc can instead pay Rs. 20,000 once, for the life of the vehicle.

Set yearly amounts by engine size, in force since 1 July 2025: Rs. 2,000 up to 1,000 cc, Rs. 3,000 for 1,001–1,300 cc, Rs. 4,000 for 1,301–1,500 cc, Rs. 5,000 for 1,501–2,500 cc and Rs. 8,000 above 2,500 cc. Electric four-wheelers pay no token tax at all until 30 June 2028.

Balochistan is the one province where the age of the car changes how it is charged. A car up to 660 cc pays Rs. 10,500 once while it is under five years old, and Rs. 1,000 a year after that; 661–1,000 cc pays Rs. 12,000 once, then Rs. 1,100 a year. Above that it is a flat yearly amount whatever the age — Rs. 1,400 to 1,500 cc, Rs. 1,700 to 2,000 cc and Rs. 2,000 above 2,000 cc.

In Punjab, yes. Paying the whole year in one go on or before 31 August takes 10% off the yearly token. On a Rs. 12,000 token that is Rs. 1,200 saved. Other provinces set their own rules, so check your excise department’s schedule.

One is your province’s token. The other is a federal charge under Section 234 that the same counter collects for the FBR, based on engine size — Rs. 800 up to 1,000 cc, Rs. 2,500 for 1,300–1,499 cc, up to Rs. 10,000 at 2,000 cc and above. Only the federal part counts towards your income tax for the year.

Not on the provincial token, which is the same for everyone. But the federal part doubles for anyone off the Active Taxpayer List, so Rs. 2,500 becomes Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 10,000 becomes Rs. 20,000.

The federal part does. Section 234 stops it being collected on a car more than ten years old. The provincial token carries on for as long as the vehicle stays registered.

Punjab, Islamabad and Sindh let a car up to 1,000 cc settle its token once — Rs. 20,000 — instead of paying every year, and Balochistan charges a small car that way until it is five years old. Where the token is paid once, the federal charge is collected once too, at a higher one-off figure of Rs. 10,000 for a car up to 1,000 cc.

All five: Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Islamabad. Every band is transcribed from the government that sets it — the Punjab and Balochistan excise schedules, the Sindh excise department’s own calculator, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Act 2025 and the Finance Act 2026 for Islamabad. Where a province has not published a table for an earlier year we say so rather than guess.

Punjab exempts 95% of both the registration fee and the yearly motor vehicle tax for electric vehicles, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa charges electric four-wheelers no token tax at all until 30 June 2028. Balochistan charges them by the band their motor power converts to. The calculator works on engine size, so check your province’s concession before you pay.