No deadline extension in income tax filing after today, FBR warns

KARACHI: The federal revenue board has on Friday confirmed it will not allow any extensions in the deadline to file income tax returns beyond October 15 (today) following which there will be fines incurred by the day on those who are late, ARY News reported.

The FBR spokesperson has said today that there will be no deadline extension anymore and noted that for those who have yet to submit the returns, the offices will remain open until 12 am tonight.

Also, if you are going for submitting challans and paying your taxes, the national bank branches will too remain open beyond work hours uptil 8 pm today, confirmed FBR spox Asad Tahir Jappa.

After the deadline, for each passing day there will be a fine of Rs1,000 and in worse cases a possible jail of two years, said FBR’s Jappa.

He also said the online FBR portal, IRIS, is working swiftly and that its capacity to handle more traffic has also been jacked.

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