Even NBR chairman fails to submit tax returns online due to automation issues!

Newly-appointed Chairman of the National Board of Income Abdur Rahman Khan himself has been a victim of the weak point in NBR’s automation – a project faced by taxpayers all the absolute top plot via the nation – as he didn’t post his tax returns on-line for the 2nd time.

For the period of the inauguration ceremony of an on-line tax return carrier centre at the NBR status of job within the capital’s Agargaon at the present time (23 September), the chairman stated, “I had didn’t post my e-return closing year. The identical has came about this year too. No longer most effective me, but my family also faced the identical field.”

At the occasion, the NBR chairman recognized the biometric field of cellphones as the first reason of this failure.

“I truly enjoy supplied directions to the officials to recount with the mobile operators about this field. Moreover, I truly enjoy also directed the NBR officials to search out out the weaknesses within the carrier and solve those,” the chairman added.

There were talks about on-line registration and tax return submission via NBR’s on-line portal for the closing 5 years, but dinky growth has been made.

Currently, there are around 1.04 crore Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) holders within the nation, amongst whom most effective 40 lakh TIN holders post tax returns.

Among the 40 lakh taxpayers, around four lakh of us post returns on-line.

The European Union is offering toughen to the e-TIN project.