NBR plans tax hunt in posh areas

National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to search for taxpayers at every house in city's posh areas this month as part of its initiative to bring 0.32 million new eligible people under tax net in the ongoing fiscal, reports BSS.
"The move has been initiated to bring the newly eligible people under tax net," NBR Chairman M Nojibur Rahman told the news agency.
He said: "Tax officials will visit house to house, shops and business offices in the city's posh areas to find eligible taxpayers."
Mentioning that NBR carries out survey regularly in all tax circles to collect new taxpayers, the NBR chairman said: "We've included the special move this year with the regular job."
In addition, the regular survey would be conducted more attentively and perfectly, he added. "Country's economy is being expanded, but a good number of eligible people are yet to come under tax net that is why NBR has given concentration on catching the eligible taxpayers through the survey."
Nojibur said Local Government Division, Ministry of Public Works and Internal Resources Division will jointly conduct the drive.
The NBR has set a target of bringing its 29 tax circles under the Survey-2015 to find 20,000 new eligible taxpayers in each circle.
He said the government has a plan to increase the number of taxpayers to 3 million by 2018-19. At present, only 1.8 million people are submitting income tax returns although the country has nearly 160 million citizens.
"Human resources of NBR are being increased to expand tax net. Moreover, NBR has started dialogue with different business bodies and organisations," said Mr  Nojibur.