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.

The Punjab Excise & Taxation Department collects it. 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 Islamabad Excise & Taxation Department collects it, but the rate is fixed federally: 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. The excise department also publishes a one-off figure for a car up to 1,000 cc — Rs. 20,000 when it is not already registered, or Rs. 15,000 for one that has completed three years but not five. That is a choice you make at the counter, so this calculator shows the yearly figure.

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 the yearly amount does not change with age — Rs. 1,400 to 1,500 cc, Rs. 1,700 to 2,000 cc and Rs. 2,000 above 2,000 cc — though the schedule also offers a one-off figure at every size for anyone who would rather settle it in one go.

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. That flat doubling came in for 2019-20. Before it, the law printed a second column of its own and the gap was far wider at the top: in 2018-19 a 1,300 cc car went from Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 7,500 and a 2,000 cc one from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 30,000. Pick an earlier year in the calculator and it charges those figures.

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.

A token settled once for the whole life of the vehicle instead of every year. Punjab and Islamabad charge every car up to 1,000 cc that way at Rs. 20,000, and Balochistan charges one under five years old that way — Rs. 10,500 up to 660 cc, Rs. 12,000 from 661 to 1,000 cc. Sindh publishes a one-off figure too, but there it is an alternative you can choose rather than the only route, so this calculator prices the yearly amount. Where the token is paid once, Section 234(2) lets the federal charge be collected once as well, 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 pages, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Act 2025 and the Finance Act 2026 for Islamabad. How far back each one reaches differs, because each province publishes its own history: Punjab goes back to 2017-18, Sindh part of the way, and the others hold the current tables only. Where a province has not published a table for a year we say so rather than guess.

The federal part runs the full 2017-18 to 2026-27, because Section 234 is one law for the whole country. The provincial token depends on what your province published and still publishes: Punjab covers all ten years, and Sindh covers 2017-18 to 2019-20 and 2026-27. For a province and year we cannot check line by line, the calculator shows the federal part only and says so, rather than guessing a token figure.

Punjab exempts 95% of both the registration fee and the yearly motor vehicle tax for electric vehicles. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa charges electric four-wheelers no token tax at all until 30 June 2028, and the Balochistan Finance Act 2026 waives it there in full until 30 June 2030. The calculator works on engine size, so check your province’s concession before you pay.

This calculator estimates the yearly amount from your vehicle’s engine size and province — it does not look up a specific number plate. To check or pay a vehicle already assessed, each province runs its own online service: Punjab and Islamabad both through excise.punjab.gov.pk, Sindh through excise.gos.pk, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through kpexcise.gov.pk, and Balochistan through excise.balochistan.gov.pk. If you only want to know what you owe before you register or renew, the estimate here is worked out from the same published rates those services charge from.

No. Token tax is the yearly charge to keep a vehicle registered; the transfer fee is a separate, one-off charge the same excise department collects when ownership moves from one person to another. Provinces publish it on their own schedules alongside the token table, but this calculator only prices the annual token — check your province’s excise department for the transfer fee itself.

No — they are two different charges under two different laws. This page is the provincial token: a charge your excise department collects every year (or once, for cars up to 1,000 cc) just to keep a vehicle registered. Section 231B is a separate, one-off federal charge collected only when a vehicle is first registered or transferred into a new owner’s name. If you are buying or newly registering a vehicle, the vehicle purchase tax calculator on this site works out that figure instead — this page is for the recurring token.