Karachi RTO sheds light on e-filing of IT returns

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is poised to give maximum facilitation to small traders in order to resolve their grievances.

Speaking at a training workshop on 'E-filing of Income Tax Returns' organized by Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) (Dastoor) at Karachi Press Club (KPC) here, Badaruddin Qureshi, chief commissioner, Regional Tax Office (RTO)-II, Karachi said that the board had made two drafts of returns, which were quiet simple and single pager and added that the FBR was ready to facilitate small traders in resolving their grievances. He also appreciated the efforts to KUJ Dastoor to mobilize its members and motivated them to fulfill their legal obligation.

Earlier, Hayat Omer Malik, deputy commissioner RTO-II gave step-wise demo about e-filing of returns and educate the journalists how they could file their income tax returns without the assistance of legal consultant. He said that FBR had launched exclusive mobile app 'Tax Aasaan' to facilitate salaried taxpayers and wealth statement was now a part of the new app, which allowed submission of wealth statement with no break-up of wealth.

In vote of thanks, President KUJ Dastoor Tariq Abul Hasan expressed his gratitude to Badaruddin and his team for imparting knowledge about e-filing of income tax returns to the members, adding that return filing was a legal obligation to all citizens, having taxable income. Rizwan Bhatti, vice president KUJ Dastoor, Raja Kamran, Treasurer KPC, Tariq Aziz, information secretary KUJ, Dastoor and others were present on the occasion. Badaruddin Qureshi on Wednesday also deployed his team at KPC to assist journalists in e-filing of income tax returns.

Later, the Chief Commissioner and his team were honored with KPC souvenirs, recognizing their efforts for facilitating journalists.