The activation tax and withholding tax on prepaid cards already make a phone top-up feel taxed at every step, so I get why another SMS levy would have caused a fuss. Cancelling it for now seems sensible, though the underlying revenue gap probably hasn’t gone anywhere.
I had my own small paperwork week: a stack of expense receipts that finance wanted as one printable PDF. I used LensUp, a browser-based scan to PDF tool, to turn phone photos into pages, and it compressed toward the size the portal asked for, though it landed a bit over once. Files stayed on my device and processed in the tab, which was the main reason I tried it that way.
There is someone out there who is just anxious to grab money from anywhere he can, not caring about the system, about the people, or about the country for that matter.
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP.
While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
The activation tax and withholding tax on prepaid cards already make a phone top-up feel taxed at every step, so I get why another SMS levy would have caused a fuss. Cancelling it for now seems sensible, though the underlying revenue gap probably hasn’t gone anywhere.
I had my own small paperwork week: a stack of expense receipts that finance wanted as one printable PDF. I used LensUp, a browser-based scan to PDF tool, to turn phone photos into pages, and it compressed toward the size the portal asked for, though it landed a bit over once. Files stayed on my device and processed in the tab, which was the main reason I tried it that way.
There is someone out there who is just anxious to grab money from anywhere he can, not caring about the system, about the people, or about the country for that matter.