National Board of Revenue is planning to organise a three-day income tax fair from November 19 in seven divisional headquarters including Dhaka where the event will be held in two locations.
The event has been styled as “Winter Tax Fair,” which will be organised for the first time in Bangladesh.
Usually, the NBR holds week-long national income tax fairs across the country on September 16-22 every year. Officials said the winter edition of income tax fair had been introduced as the NBR saw a huge interest among taxpayers in such events.
Besides, during the September fair finance minister gave an advice to the revenue board to organise a winter fair.
The NBR now awaits finance minister’s approval to a proposal of the fair. After having approval, the tax authorities would start taking preparations for the fair, officials said.
According to the plan, the winter tax fair will take place in Dhaka Officers Club premises and in the income tax zone–9 commissioner’s office. In other divisional headquarters - Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barisal and Rangpur - the fair will be organised at the respective income tax commissioner’s offices.
The fair will provide one-stop services including registration of electronic taxpayers identification number (eTIN), submission of income tax returns and online payment facilities.
During the nationwide fair in September, the NBR collected Tk2,035.32 crore as income tax and received 161,000 income tax returns. The week-long fair provided service to around 758,000 visitors across the country.
