The National Board of Revenue (NBR), Chattogram has set a target to earn revenue of over Tk 600 crore from tax fair beginning tomorrow at GEC convention centre in the Chattogram.

NBR Chattogram chapter is organising the fair with a view to encouraging people to pay taxes regularly.

City Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin is expected to inaugurate the fair in the morning of the day.

Commissioner of Appellate Tax Zone and convener of Income Tax fair-18 Motaher Hossain, at a press conference, said the weeklong event would begin through bringing out a rally and holding a procession on the premises of GEC convention centre

At the press conference held today at the conference hall of CGO building of Agrabad Tax Zone, Hossain said NBR earned revenue of Tk 529.70 crore from 32,984 tax payers in the last fiscal.

Taxpayers can submit their returns for 2018-2019 in the fair. There will also be facility for the new taxpayer’s e-registration for taxpayer identification numbers (TINs), he said.