SIALKOT: Thousands of the taxpayers are facing great ordeal in ensuring the timely online submission of their tax returns due to un-located technical faults in the recently introduced IRIS system of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). The taxpayers are unable to ensure the submission of their annual tax returns before December 31, 2015, the deadline given by the FBR.
The FBR has recently introduced the IRIS system to facilitate taxpayers, enabling them to ensure their online tax submission in both Sialkot and Gujranwala regions. But, there were several technical faults in this system, which have not yet been removed by the IT experts of the FBR despite the repeated appeals by hundreds of the taxpayers.
President Gujranwala Tax Bar Association Tabarak Hussain, general secretary Waseem Ashiq Sufi and former vice president Syed Zeeshan Ali Rizvi have expressed grave concern over this situation. They said that FBR’s IRIS system has become a headache for the tax payers, as the IT experts of FBR have not yet removed these technical faults, in this regard.
They urged the Chairman FBR to take serious notice of this critical situation, in the larger interest of the thousands of the tax payers belonging to both Sialkot and Gujranwala Regions as well.
When contacted, the concerned officials of the FBR said that the IT experts were busy in removing the technical faults from the IRIS systems which would soon be removed to facilitate the tax payers…#
