LAHORE: The taxpayers and tax-practitioners have complained that they are facing difficulties in filing of income tax returns for the financial year 2015-16 due to the new IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) malfunctioning. The IRIS is very slow and taking long hours to file a return, it is reported.
Documents available with Customs Today disclosed that the IRIS system gets automatically log-out and loss of data entry that requires extra time to re-enter the lost data.
It was reported that the IRIS was not working and most of the time it showed server down and failed to update CPR challan deposit. It was said that the IRIS was not generating tax payments challans while most of the National Bank branches were not updated with the newly introduced system of payment through bills.
Due to malfunctioning of IRIS, Lahore Tax Bar Association secretary general Ch Qamaruz Zaman and other office bearers urged the Finance Ministry and Federal Board of Revenue to extend date of filing of returns.
The Ministry of Finance and FBR are considering to extend the date of filing of returns upto 31st December, it was said.
