SIALKOT: Despite their hectic efforts, the Information technology (IT) experts of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) are still unable to locate and remove technical faults in the e-filing tax return submission system at both of the Regional Tax Directorates in Sialkot and Gujranwala.
Thousands of the taxpayers are facing great difficulties in ensuring the online submission of their tax returns before the final deadline of October 31, 2014. Only a week is left behind, but the technical faults are not being located and removed by the IT officials concerned of FBR here.
Expressing grave concern over this critical situation, Sialkot Tax Bar Association (STBA) President Shahid Mehmood and Gujranwala Tax Bar Association (GTBA) President Ehsan Ullah Shamim have urged the FBR to extend the final deadline of online submission of the tax returns till December 31, 2014 for facilitating the thousands of the taxpayers and brining the maximum people under the tax net. The FBR officials said that RTO Gujranwala was given of target of ensuring 73,000 online tax returns from Gujranwala Region and 65,000 from Sialkot region.
