Awareness session about digital banking held for traders.

QUETTA -- Two senior officials of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in Quetta have said that it has now become easier for the people involved in the industry and trade to deposit their taxes through digital banking.

SBP assistant chief managers Mohammad Younis and Sohaib Qadir were speaking at an awareness session regarding digital banking and other issues organised for members of the Quetta Chamber of Commerce and Industry (QCCI).

QCCI members Haji Abdullah Achakzai, Salahuddin Khilji, Syed Abdul Rehman Shah Agha, Haji Janan Achakzai and Hidayatullah and some other SBP officials were present on the occasion.

Briefing the officials and the QCCI members during the awareness session, Mr Qadir said that the government always introduced new schemes to facilitate the people and the business community, like it introduced the Alternate Delivery Channel (ADC) in 2019.

'It has been decided to introduce this system for tax collection as well. Through digital banking, people involved in the industry and trade will be able to deposit taxes through mobile phones, ATMs and banks,' he said.

In the past the people involved in the industry and trade faced difficulties in submitting Customs duties, but now taxes could be submitted through any bank by creating a PSID (payment slip ID) on the portal of the Federal Board of Revenue, he said.

'Taxes could be submitted...