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NBR to keep tab on undertaxed businesses to increase revenue

UNB, Dhaka
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to strengthen its monitoring of the business organisations, which are paying less tax than they should do.
"We've information that many business organisations are paying lower amounts of tax,” a senior NBR official told the news agency.
He said if the revenue collection - tax and VAT - from these business houses could be boosted, it would help the revenue collecting authority to fetch a significant amount of revenue to touch its target for the current fiscal year.
"To achieve the huge revenue target,
the NBR has no alternative to increasing revenue collection from the existing pockets alongside widening its VAT and tax net," the official said.
The NBR chairman, he said, also directed its officials to strengthen their monitoring on product and service sectors.
According to him, strengthening the monitoring process will not be a tough job for them as the NBR has the data of the business houses which are paying lower amounts of tax.
The NBR has got a gigantic target of Tk 176,370 crore revenue collection for the 2015-16 fiscal against last year's Tkl35,028crore.
The NBR has already decided to prepare the lists of sectors and business entities to widen the net of the Value Added Tax (VAT).
Besides, it has made mandatory the use of electronic cash register (ECR) or the point of sale (POS) for all kind of shops to strictly monitor the revenue earnings.
In July 2008, the NBR issued an order making the installation of ECR mandatory by 11 categories of service providers to check VAT evasion.
The service providers are hotels, restaurants, and fast food shops, sweetmeat shops, furniture sales centres, beauty parlours, community centres, posh shopping centres in metropolitan areas, and relevant business organisations, departmental stores, general stores and other big and medium wholesale and retail businesses.
The order took effect on July 1, 2008 for the business organisations of all city corporations and district towns across the country.
Under the system, the businesses concerned will have to give the printed transaction slips to the respective customers. The customers have also been asked to take ECR-printed slips from the shops and to complain to the NBR if they are denied the slips by the shops.
The NBR also had decided to intensify its tax survey, inspection, monitoring and realisation. "The Board has already directed all the field offices to intensify and strengthen their respective tax monitoring," the NBR official said.
As part of that, the NBR has gathered the information of flat and house owners of Gulshan, Banani, Uttara and other posh areas of the capital city.
Meanwhile, the income tax wing of the NBR has conducted a survey in their 31 tax zones across the country from November last year.