The National Board of Revenue (NBR), Chattogram has set a target to earn revenue of over Taka 600 crore from tax fair beginning on Tuesday at GEC convention centre in the city.NBR Chattogram chapter is organising the fair with a view to encouraging people to pay taxes regularly. City Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin is expected to inaugurate the fair in the morning of the day.
Commissioner of Appellate Tax Zone and convener of Income Tax fair-18 Motaher Hossain, at a press conference, said the weeklong event would begin through bringing out a rally and holding a procession on the premises of GEC convention centre At the press conference held today at the conference hall of CGO building of Agrabad Tax Zone, Hossain said NBR earned revenue of Taka 529.70 crore from 32,984 tax payers in the last fiscal.
Taxpayers can submit their returns for 2018-2019 in the fair. There will also be facility for the new taxpayer's e-registration for taxpayer identification numbers (TINs), he said.
There will be sufficient booths to assist people. It will also have separate counters to assist senior, female, and differently abled persons. Income Tax Commissioner Harn-ur-Rashid, Nazmul Karim, Lutfur Azim, Mamunur Rahman and member secretary of Income Tax Day-2018 Mofiz Ullah, among others, attended the press conference. The fair will remain open from 10 am to 6pm everyday from November 13 to 19.
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