A three day-long income tax fair begins today to encourage people for paying income tax to widen the tax net for ensuring increased revenue collection.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is organising the fair 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.
The inaugural ceremony of the central programme will be held at the Officers’ Club in the city with NBR Chairman Nojibur Rahman in the chair.
As chief guest, Finance Minister AMA Muhith is expected to attend the programme while Law Minister Anisul Huq and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hasan will attend the ceremony as special guests.
Usually, the NBR holds a weeklong national income tax fairs across the country on September 16-22 every year, but the winter edition of income tax fair had been introduced as the NBR saw a huge interest among taxpayers in such events.
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 others divisional headquarters of 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 a record Tk2,035.32 crore as income tax and received 161,000 income tax returns. A weeklong fair provided service to around 758,000 visitors across the country.
The NBR is assigned to collect a gigantic revenue collection target of Tk176,370 crore for the fiscal year 2015-16. Of the amount, the lion’s share of Tk65,932 crore will come from income tax.
