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National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan has said the agency\u2019s recent notice on zero-tax returns is intended to raise taxpayer awareness, not to intimidate anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not want to scare taxpayers in any way. We simply want to make them aware,\u201d he told a press conference on Tuesday at the Ministry of Finance\u2019s multipurpose hall in Dhaka.<\/p>\n
Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, senior officials, and special assistants were also present.<\/p>\n
Responding to questions about whether warnings of a five-year sentence for false zero-tax returns were meant to pressure taxpayers, the NBR chief said no new laws had been enacted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe noticed that, in shops and on social media, people are teaching others how to file zero returns. This is dangerous. If your file is audited later, you won\u2019t be able to answer because all the information is false,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Abdur Rahman Khan stressed that providing false information is a punishable offence. \u201cWe are working to make online filing more user-friendly.<\/p>\n
Around 10,000 to 20,000 people are now filing online every day. This is part of an awareness campaign, not a fear campaign,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Addressing questions about alleged mass dismissals of NBR officials following internal protests, the chairman rejected the claim. \u201cThere has been no mass dismissal, nor is there any plan to do so. Action has only been taken against a few individuals who grossly violated discipline, such as tearing up colleagues\u2019 orders in front of the media. The revenue department is our resource, and we aim to motivate officers to enhance collections, not remove them,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Online Report National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan has said the agency\u2019s recent notice on zero-tax returns is intended to raise taxpayer awareness, not to intimidate anyone. \u201cWe do not want to scare taxpayers in any way. We simply want to make them aware,\u201d he told a press conference on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64646,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64644\/revisions\/64646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}