The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has intended to start camping soon at district and upazila levels to enhance tax collection and provide door-to-door services to the taxpayers.

"We have started the self-motivation programme in July to encourage the potential taxpayers, and now we will start camping at convenient places to collect taxes from grassroots people," NBR chairman Muhammad Abdul Majid told UNB.

Initially the NBR officials would set up their camps at greater districts and upazilas, he said.

Local people of the respective district and upazila will be notified about the date of camping and other particulars, the NBR chief said.

Officials from income tax and VAT department will be available in the camps during the campaign.

The self-motivation programme will continue simultaneously till September 30, the last date of submitting income tax return, the chairman said.

The NBR launched a countrywide campaign from July 1 to encourage people at upazila level to bring them under the motivational programme for increasing tax-base in the next fiscal year.

The revenue board is making effort to bring the people, who are willing to pay tax but not familiar with the procedure, under the tax net, he said.

Currently, there are around 2.6 million Taxpayers' Identification Number (TIN) holders.

The revenue board is now largely dependent on traditional big taxpayers and there always remains a concern of downslide in revenue earning if their financial condition deteriorate.

Officials said the government has set a large revenue earning target at Tk 54,500 crore for the current fiscal year.