National Board of Revenue has bagged revenue just over the target it set for the Income Tax Fair 2013 that concluded Sunday amid overwhelming response by the taxpayers.
During the weeklong event across the country, it collected Tk11.17bn in income tax as against the target of Tk11bn, officials said. The figure was Tk8.39bn in the last fair.
They said a total of 510,145 people obtained services from the fair while 12,337 people registered themselves with E-TIN and 74,356 people re-registered. Some 132,017 tax returns were submitted.
As the official income tax submission deadline for fiscal year 2012-2013 will end on September 30, thousands of taxpayers gathered at all the fair venues across the country, NBR officials said.
Addressing the concluding function, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on finance ministry AHM Mostafa Kamal (Lotus Kamal) requested the revenue authorities to extend the deadline for submission of the tax returns for the last fiscal year by at least one month from September 30.
“We received a huge number of requests from the people for extending the deadline,” he said.
NBR member Syed Aminul Karim said the revenue authorities would introduce online submission of returns from next year.
On the last day of the fair on Sunday, hundreds of taxpayers were seen in the long queues at the Officer’s Club premises.
The board served 100,787 taxpayers on the last day while 2,256 registered themselves for E-TIN and 16,810 re-registered. It collected around Tk3.18bn on the day from 29,310 returns filed by the taxpayers.
To provide income tax related services and to make people conscious about tax payment, the revenue body had organised the fair, which was launched on Monday last at seven divisional headquarters while 54 district headquarters observed the fair for two days.
To facilitate tax related transactions and to help the visitors, E-TIN registration booths, re-registration booths, correction booths, certificate printing and delivery booths, E-payment booths, return filing booths, help desks, emergency health booths were set up at the fair premises in Dhaka.
The visitors were offered to get the electronic TIN registration instantly.
