ISLAMABAD: As many as 810,031 income tax returns have been filed so far during the tax year 2016, showing 32 per cent growth over the same period of last year as 615,416 returns were filed in tax year 2015.
According to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) official sources, about 69,354 returns have been manually filed so far in tax year 2016 as compared to 104,918 for tax year 2015. Addition of 60,000 more manually filed returns would further improve the figure, they added.
Breakup of data revealed that within the category of individuals, the FBR has received 764,887 returns for tax year 2016 as compared to 581,172 in tax year 2015. This category of individuals including salaried class has shown positive response in filing of annual income tax return/statement.
Under the category of Association of Persons (AOPs), a total of 37,760 returns have been filed for tax year 2016 against 29,156 returns for tax year 2015. So far, a total of 7,384 companies have filed returns for TY-2016 as compared to 5,088 during tax year 2015.
