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Income tax lawyers ask for extension in deadline

Income Tax Bar Association requests for extension in the deadline for filing income tax returns to November 30.

Ehtisham Mufti October 27, 2010

KARACHI: The Income Tax Bar Association (ITBA) has requested for an extension in the deadline for filing income tax returns to November 30. The bar has said that this will allow taxpayers to file their returns and statements with ease in light of problems with the electronic filing portal.

The request was made by ITBA President Ali Rahim in a letter to Federal Board of Revenue Chairman Sohail Ahmed.

The letter said that ITBA has always encouraged the electronic filing of taxes and that the FBR had pledged its support to the bar in this regard.

The earlier extension from October 15 to October 30 was requested on the premise that the electronic filing portal of the FBR was not functioning properly. However, the portal was not functioning properly up to October 22, said the letter, adding that lawyers were filing sales tax returns, which had a deadline of October 25, for the first three days following October 22.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 28^th, 2010.

COMMENTS (2)

Asrar Ahmed | 14 years ago | Reply Income Tax Bar Association Karachi is becoming lazy and political like Chamber of Commerce.Please note that other tax bars in the country are not making similar demands. Is it not odd that Chamber of Commerce are not asking for extension but Bar association is. Extension of time has been allowed by Member Tax Policy Three times.Enough is enough. The country runs on tax revenues not extensions

Farah | 14 years ago | Reply There has already been given extension twice this year by the Member (Direct Taxes Policy), FBR. Income Tax Bar Association has gone nuts.

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