Income Tax Return Filing Deadline Extended Further

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended the time for filing income tax returns by two more days. Taxpayers will be able to file their income tax returns till January 2.

This information has been given in a notification of NBR.

As 31 December, the last day for filing returns, is a public holiday, this period has been extended to 2 January 2022 for individual taxpayers for the 2021-22 tax year.

The NBR's public relations department said on Thursday (December 30) that the last date for filing income tax returns of individual taxpayers for the 2021-22 tax year is January 2, 2022, as Friday, December 31, is a public holiday. Submit your income tax return by January 2 to avoid fines. '

Earlier, November 30 was the last day to submit returns. A large number of taxpayers could not submit their income, expenditure and asset statements. As a result, the time was extended to 31 December.

NBR First Secretary (Tax Monitoring and Training) said. Muhtasibur Rahman Khan said, "In order to give more taxpayers the opportunity to file their returns, we have extended the deadline for filing returns till December 31." We want more taxpayers to file returns online.

This is the second time that the NBR has given taxpayers extra time to file their returns without penalty.