Suzuki Alto Token Tax in Pakistan

The Alto is a 660cc car, which puts it in Punjab's Up to 1000cc band. For 2026-27 that band carries a fixed PKR 20,000 token tax — not a figure that scales with your variant, your invoice price or the age of the car. A VXR and a VXL-AGS pay exactly the same token tax.

Punjab published the same PKR 20,000 for 2025-26, so this is not a rise this year. It was a rise from the Rs 15,000 the department published for 2023-24.

The token tax itself does not change with filer status. What changes is the income tax collected alongside it under section 234: PKR 10,000 on the ATL against PKR 30,000 off it — three times as much, and PKR 20,000 a year you keep simply by filing a return.

Source: Excise, Taxation & Narcotics Control Department, Punjab — Motor Vehicle Tax rates · 2026-27 column · read 2026-09-06

A rebate equal to 10% of the annual token tax is allowed if the tax for the whole year is paid on or before 31 August. On an Alto that is PKR 2,000 for doing nothing except paying early — and it is the single easiest money on this page.

There is no equivalent discount for paying late. Arrears attract a penalty set by the department, and an unpaid token blocks transfer of the vehicle, so it compounds into a problem when you come to sell.

You will read that a small car in Punjab can pay a Rs 20,000 lifetime token and never pay again. That is a misreading. What the department actually publishes is this:

If a vehicle with engine power up to 1000cc is transferred within ten years of registration, an amount of Rs 20,000 with a rebate equal to 10% for each financial year shall be charged.

It is charged at transfer, on a vehicle up to 1000cc being transferred within 10 years of its first registration, and it is reduced by 10% for each financial year that has already passed. So a car transferred in its eighth year carries far less than one transferred in its second. A motorcycle in the same position is charged PKR 1,500.

The coincidence that this figure and the annual Alto token tax are both Rs 20,000 is exactly why the two get confused. They are different charges, triggered by different events.

This is a one-off charge at first registration, separate from the annual token. Since 1 July 2024 it is a percentage of the vehicle's value, not a fixed rupee amount — the fixed figures still circulating online are the old regime, and they will understate what you pay on a car costing several million rupees.

At 660cc the Alto falls in the Up to 850cc band: 0.5% of value on the ATL, and 1.5% off it.

Alto variants — VXR, VXR AGS and VXL AGS — all sit in the same 660cc band, so the rate is identical across the range. What differs is the value it is applied to, which is why the table above is organised by price rather than by variant: put in the figure on your own invoice.

Source: Withholding tax at new registration (s.231B), as published by Punjab Excise · effective 2024-07-01 · read 2026-09-06. Registration fee, number plate and other provincial charges are separate from this tax.

Taking an Alto at an indicative PKR 2,690,000 — replace it with your own invoice price — and registering in Punjab:

Registration fee, number plate, and the provincial charges that go with them are on top of this — those are set by the Excise office and are not taxes. Every year after the first, you pay the token, the section 234 income tax and the professional tax again, but not the s.231B advance tax.

Token tax is provincial. The figure on this page is Punjab's, read from the Punjab department's own 2026-27 table. CalcuPK has not read the other provinces' current schedules, so it does not publish a number for them — an Alto owner in Karachi paying a Lahore figure would be wrong twice over.

1. 1.Look the vehicle up on MTMIS. Punjab's Motor Transport Management Information System shows the registration details and the tax position for a registration number, free. Confirm the engine capacity it holds is 660cc — that is what puts your Alto in the Up to 1000cc band.
2. 2.Generate a challan through ePay Punjab. The provincial app and web portal issue a PSID for motor vehicle tax against your registration number.
3. 3.Pay the PSID through internet banking, an ATM, a mobile wallet or over a bank counter. Payment posts against the vehicle record rather than against you personally.
4. 4.Do it before 31 August to take the 10% rebate, and keep the receipt — it is what you produce if the vehicle is checked.

Being on the Active Taxpayers List at the moment of payment is what decides whether you are charged PKR 10,000 or PKR 30,000 in section 234 income tax. Check your status before you generate the challan, not after.