The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has brought forward the income tax filing deadline by a day to December 30, Wednesday, instead of December 31, as announced earlier.
The revenue authority issued the disclosure on Tuesday, citing a bank holiday on the last day of the calendar year.
They had rescheduled the date from November 30 in the wake of taxpayers' pleas for extension amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The tax offices began accepting returns from July 1.
This year, the countrywide income tax fair could not take place because of the pandemic, but all the tax zones are providing the facilities that usually exist in the tax fair.
Only 4.6 million out of the population of 160 million have the Taxpayer’s Identification Number (TIN) and about two million submit returns every year.
