The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has so far collected around Tk1,097 crore as income tax from the ongoing National Income Tax Fair that began on September 16 across the country.
The board has served over 4.25 lakh people including 77,118 taxpayers who filed their income tax returns in the countrywide fair.
The fair, like the previous days, has attracted a huge number of service seekers, mostly the taxpayers visiting here for filing returns and people seeking registration with Electronic Taxpayers Identification Number (e-TIN.)
The tax fair in Dhaka Officers Club drew huge crowd as the fair remained open from 10am to 8pm yesterday, with three hours additional time from the usual schedule to help service holders filing their income tax returns.
Officials said the fair did not attract that much crowd in the morning due to rainy weather. However, the crowd started converging on the venue from the afternoon. Although the fair was full of crowd till 5pm, there was not that much audience in the evening despite the extension of the time frame.