ePay Punjab Collects Rs 133bn in Tax in Four Months

The Punjab government has collected over Rs 133 billion in just four months through its ePay Punjab platform. The digital system, handling taxes and fees across 18 departments, shows rapid growth in online payments and improved transparency in provincial revenue collection.

The Punjab government has achieved a notable milestone with its digital payment platform. In just the first two months of the 2025-26 fiscal year, the ePay Punjab system processed over 6 million transactions and generated tax revenue of approximately Rs 65 billion.

A major chunk of this collection came from sales tax on services, accounting for about Rs 40.6 billion, followed by token tax (around Rs 4.8 billion), traffic-challans (Rs 1.65 billion), and property tax (Rs 804 million).

The platform handles payments for 88 tax categories across 18 government departments, making it a key contributor to the provincial treasury and a signal of increasing digital adoption in tax and fee collection.

This surge in online payments carries several implications:

• It suggests growing citizen and business willingness to shift to digital channels, which can enhance transparency and ease of compliance.
• The government benefits from faster tax/fee collection, reduced leakages, and lower cost of collection.
• For policymakers, it underscores the importance of integrating more services into the platform to deepen the digital collection footprint.

However, to fully capitalise on this momentum, the following points merit attention:

• Ensuring that the user experience remains smooth and secure so that adoption continues to grow across regions and segments.
• Monitoring how much of the increase in tax revenue is due to behavioural change (digital shift) versus actual growth in tax base or compliance.
• Expanding the payment channels and continuing outreach to smaller taxpayers and less-digitally-enabled demographics.

In summary, the ePay Punjab platform is currently showing strong performance and may become a model for digital tax collection in the province. If this trend continues and scales further, it could have positive knock-on effects for tax efficiency and revenue mobilisation in Punjab.