Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has this week announced its appreciation of the excellent response from the country's business community to the new mandatory electronic filing of Sales Tax Returns.
The new measure requires the registered persons to file their declarations electronically at the FBR’s website, without going through the hassle of waiting in long queues in front of banks for paying sales tax and submitting returns.
For creating awareness about the smooth implementation of e-filing, the FBR conducted seminars in all the major cities, in coordination with representative trade bodies.
The country's business community and the e-Intermediaries have shown an overwhelming response, and so far, around 44,309 taxpayers have obtained e-Enrollment at FBR Portal and 32,296 taxpayers have filed their Sales Tax Returns electronically from their offices/homes using internet.
It is said that all remaining taxpayers are either in the process of e-enrollment or preparation of electronic returns.
For those taxpayers who have difficulty in working on the eFBR Portal due to internet or power problem, the FBR has established self service Kiosks and operator-assisted help desks in the Regional Tax Offices.
In addition to the arrangements described above, a data centre with high speed Internet bandwidth has been established with an adequate setup of computer equipment to handle e-filing.
Lastly, keeping in view the learning curve of taxpayers and large scale change management from paper based filing of returns to e-filing, the FBR has extended the last date for e-filing of sales tax returns to the 31st of August 2008.
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