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Ctg NBR to earn Tk 600 crore revenue from tax fair
CHATTAOGRAM, Nov 11, 2018 (BSS) – 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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