The government has raised the sales tax from 17 per cent to 25pc on 33 categories of goods covering 860 tariff lines, high-end mobile phones, imported food, decoration items, and other luxury goods. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) late on Wednesday night issued SRO297 of 2023 to implement the last part of the Rs170 billion tax revenue measures to unlock the IMF tranche. The government has