Pakistan Single Window has signed a Service Level Agreement with the Board of Revenue Sindh, formalizing arrangements for the digital collection of Sindh Stamp Duty through the Pakistan Single Window platform. The agreement was signed by Naveed Abbas Memon, Chief Domain Officer at Pakistan Single Window, and Nazir Ahmed Qureshi, Member of Revenue Systems and Enforcement Planning at the Board of Revenue Sindh, with senior officials from both organisations attending the signing ceremony held in Karachi.
The agreement marks the formalization of a collaborative arrangement aimed at digitalizing stamp duty collection on cross border trade declarations, an area where officials say the shift toward a digital process is intended to strengthen transparency, visibility and traceability across the collection process. The signing ceremony was also attended by Khalid Haider Shah, Senior Member of the Board of Revenue, whose presence at the event underscored the significance the provincial revenue authority appears to be placing on the transition toward digital stamp duty collection through the national single window platform.
A key feature of the new arrangement is the provision of a dedicated interface for the Board of Revenue Sindh, which will allow the department to monitor stamp duty collections in real time and carry out both daily and monthly reconciliation of collections against government receipts. This real time visibility is expected to give the provincial revenue body considerably greater oversight of its collections than was previously possible under earlier manual or semi digital processes, while also strengthening the overall efficiency of revenue reconciliation procedures that departments typically rely on to track incoming funds against expected receipts.
The integration of the Board of Revenue Sindh into the Pakistan Single Window platform adds to a growing list of provincial and federal bodies that have brought their processes onto the system over the past year, reflecting the platform’s continuing expansion beyond its original focus on trade related documentation and customs clearance into a broader range of government revenue and regulatory functions. Pakistan Single Window has increasingly positioned itself as a central piece of digital infrastructure connecting different government departments and revenue bodies, allowing various agencies to process transactions through a shared digital system rather than maintaining separate, disconnected processes.
The move toward digital stamp duty collection in Sindh follows similar digitization efforts already underway in other parts of the country, including Islamabad and Punjab, where physical stamp paper systems have been phased out in favour of digital alternatives over the course of the year. Taken together, these parallel efforts across different provinces and the federal capital point to a broader national trend toward eliminating manual, paper based revenue collection processes in favour of digital systems that offer real time tracking and improved reconciliation capabilities for the government departments responsible for managing them.
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