Taxpayers now can pay income tax returns as well as assess their assets through an online web application -- digiTax. Desh Universal launched the web application to simplify the submission of income tax returns. Md Alamgir Hossain, member (tax policy) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), inaugurated digiTax at a ceremony held at the auditorium of Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF) on Saturday. Alamgir Hossain said a huge interest has developed now among people to pay income tax as the number of taxpayers is now growing day by day. Read: NBR moves to speed up revenue collection Alamgir said digiTax would help simplify further the stride towards digitizing tax-related services. Apart from allowing the submission of returns online, he said, the NBR would observe Income Tax Month from November 1 for which an 'environment of fair’ is being created at tax zones so that the taxpayers can submit their returns with ease and comfort. President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) Mahmudul Hasan Khusru, Dhaka Taxes Bar Association President AKM Azizur Rahman, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Director Khaled Mahmud Sujon, digiTax director Golam Shahriyer Ronju and ERF general secretary SM Rashidul Islam were, among others, present on the occasion. Read: NBR faces uphill task in achieving VAT collection target Highlighting the main features of digiTax, its team member Syeda Nusrat Haider said there are many taxpayers of different levels in the country who do not know how to calculate income tax properly. “In order to resolve this problem, we’ve come up with a new system through which the users can prepare their returns with ease and comfort through giving inputs as per their requirements,” she said.

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