ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) makes historic achievement underPTI government.
For the tax year 2018, FBR had received 2.7m returns — the highest numberin FBR’s history. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has received nearly 40per cent more income tax returns for the tax year 2019 compared to thepreceding year ahead of the Jan 31 deadline.
The board received 2.285 million tax returns until January 29 as against1.635m returns filed in the tax year 2018.
The last date for filing of income tax returns for tax year 2019 wasextended four times consecutively to facilitate individuals to file theirreturns.
For the tax year 2018, FBR had received 2.7m returns — the highest numberin FBR’s history.
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Under the World Bank funded project, one of the targets set for Pakistan isto enhance the filing of income tax returns to 3.5m until 2023.
Talking to *Dawn*, FBR spokesperson Dr Hamid Ateeq Sarwar said the lastdate was extended to facilitate people. It is being expected that morepeople will file their returns before the deadline, he added.
The bigger challenge for FBR is now to cross last year’s tax returns marginwhat to talk about growth over the previous year returns, he added.
