How much of Pakistan's petrol price is tax?

Where every rupee of a litre of petrol goes

The levy is fixed in rupees, which is why it bites hardest when oil is cheap

Most taxes people deal with are percentages. The petroleum levy is not — it is a flat PKR 80.00 per litre, charged the same whether Arab Gulf petrol is trading at $70 a barrel or $110. The climate support levy, added to the buildup more recently, works the same way at PKR 5.00 per litre.

That has a consequence worth understanding: when world prices fall, the government's share of the pump price rises, because the fixed levy is being divided into a smaller total. It also means a rupee off the import price is a rupee off the pump price — the levy does not shrink alongside it. On the 22 Aug 2026 notification the levies alone are 24.9% of what you pay, and the full government take including customs duty is 30.9%.

Customs duty is counted separately here, and deliberately

Customs duty of PKR 20.46 per litre is government revenue too, but it is a different instrument from the levies: it is charged on the imported product at the border and appears on its own line in OGRA's buildup. Reporting a single blended "tax" figure would be easier to headline and harder to defend against the source document, so both numbers are shown and the combined total is stated as a total rather than as a tax rate.

The remaining add-ons are not government revenue at all. OMC and dealer margins come to PKR 17.85 — regulated amounts, not something an individual filling station chooses. The inland freight equalisation margin of PKR 7.44 is the mechanism that makes petrol cost the same in Quetta as in Karachi; it is explained in more detail on the city rates page.

Diesel carries the same levies on a higher base

High speed diesel pays the identical PKR 85.00 in levies and PKR 15.68 in customs duty, but against a notified price of PKR 368.29. The government's share is therefore 27.3%, slightly lower than petrol's 30.9% — not because diesel is taxed more lightly, but because the fuel underneath the tax costs more. Diesel is the fuel that moves freight and runs tube wells, so this share feeds through to food and transport costs rather than stopping at the pump.

Where these numbers come from

Every figure above is read from the components parsed out of OGRA's own price notification PDF, the same source that produces the rates elsewhere on this site. Nothing here is estimated or carried over from a previous notification: if the parsed components do not reconcile to the paisa with the price being displayed, this page shows no breakdown at all rather than an approximate one. The method is set out on the methodology page, and the underlying data is available through the free fuel price API.

Tax on petrol in Pakistan — common questions

How much tax is there on petrol in Pakistan?

As of 22 Aug 2026, PKR 105.46 of the PKR 341.59 notified petrol price is collected by the government — 30.9% of what you pay. That is PKR 85.00 in petroleum and climate support levies plus PKR 20.46 in customs duty.

What is the petroleum levy on petrol in Pakistan?

The petroleum levy is a fixed rupee amount per litre set by the federal government, not a percentage. Together with the climate support levy it accounts for PKR 85.00 per litre on the 22 Aug 2026 notification — 24.9% of the pump price.

Is there sales tax (GST) on petrol in Pakistan?

Sales tax on petroleum products is currently notified at 0%. It is still a live line in OGRA's price buildup and has been non-zero in the past, so the figures on this page read it from the notification rather than assuming it stays at zero.

How much of the petrol price goes to the petrol pump?

Dealer and OMC margins together come to PKR 17.85 per litre, or 5.2% of the price — a regulated amount, not something an individual station sets.