Staff Reporter :
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has increased uses of technologies and second sources in order to increas tax net.
“Uses of technologies and secondary sources like BRTA and city corporations have been increased to elevate the tax net and we believe it will reach desire level,” said NBR Chairman Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem while speaking in a press briefing in the conference room of the revenue board in the capital on Tuesday.
He also informed that around 18 lakh Electronic Tax Identification Numbers (E-TINs) had been added in the last 14 months.
“With this, the number of E-TIN holders has become 67.93 lakh in the country,” the NBR chief said.
According to the NBR, the number of new E-TIN holders increased by five lakh in the first four months of the current fiscal year, while by 13 lakh with 26 per cent year-on-year growth in the last fiscal year.
“NBR will provide all services related to return submissions to taxpayers throughout November through its zonal offices, although the annual tax fair will not be held this year,” Muneem said.
Usually, in the tax fair, the taxpayers may have access to all types of services at a single place. The NBR had organised a month-long income tax fair for nine years from 2010 to 2019. It cancelled the fair in 2020 due to the pandemic.
The NBR will accept the return submission at 649 circles in 31 tax zones across the country during the office hours in the month. The taxpayers will receive an instant acknowledgement of their tax submission.
The service centres will allow registration and re-registration and provide electronic tax identification numbers. The website of each tax zone has information on income tax and instructions to fill up the forms or return forms in them.
To ease the return submission process for the government officials, the NBR will open a ‘return submission booth’ and a help desk at the Secretariat and Officers’ Club from November 1 to 14, Muneem said.
Also, services on tax return will be provided at Sena Malancha in Dhaka Cantonment for the armed forces personnel on November 9 to 10.
The NBR will give tax cards to 141 highest taxpayers. As many as 666 best taxpayers in districts and city corporations will receive crests and acknowledgement and felicitation certificates.
Chattogram tax zones will award the felicitations centrally, while the other tax zones across the country will organise their own events to honour the best taxpayers.
