Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday called for strengthening further the friendly relations between tax collectors and taxpayers to expedite the collection process for fulfilling the revenue target of fiscal 2016-17, reports BSS.
“We collect tax for providing services. In this way, we will bring prosperity in the country.
There are rewards for the tax collectors to encourage them for becoming friends of the taxpayers,” he said while speaking as the chief guest at the “Income Tax Camp and Taxpayers Motivation Programme, 2017” at Mirpur Convention Centre in the capital.
National Board of Revenue (NBR) taxes zone-3, Dhaka organised the programme to provide all types of services, including obtaining electronic taxpayers identification number, payment of tax and receiving certificates at the camp.
Member of Parliament (Dhaka-16) M Elias Uddin Mollah, Senior Secretary of the Internal Resources Division and Chairman of NBR Md Nojibur Rahman also spoke on the occasion with Tax Commissioner of the Taxes Zone-3, Dhaka Nahar Ferdousi Begum in the chair.
Urging all to pay tax in stipulated time, Muhith said it is joyful for the government that every one helps to pay income tax and many of them above 40 years old.
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