KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has requested the Member IR-Policy, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Rehmatullah Khan Wazir to direct the concerned technical staff to open the window at the earliest in IRIS so that the corporate taxpayers may be able to file their applications for extension of time for filing the returns/statements for the tax year-2015.
In a letter, the President KTBA Muhammad Zubair asked the Member –IR Policy, FBR that the corporate taxpayers had filed the applications for extension of time for filing returns/statements for the tax year2015.
Subsequently, FBR extended time for filing such returns/statements till 21-January, 2015.
President KTBA further said that it is an admitted fact that majority of corporate taxpayers have filed their returns. However, there is a resonable segment of the corporate taxpayers, who owing to various reasons, are still enable to e-file their returns.
“The IRIS does not accept such applaictions for extension of filing of returns as the window for this purpose is not operative”, he added.
Therefore, the President KTBA Muhammad Zubair lamented the FRB authority concerned to open the window in IRIS for filing extension application.-
