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Automating the tax administration could have accelerated revenue collection while enabling work from home amidst the pandemic, averting many losses, including of opportunities, admitted a top official of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday.
At least eight NBR officials and staff, including a commissioner, have so far succumbed to Covid-19 while discharging duties and many taxpayers have suffered too, informed NBR Member (Tax Policy) Alamgir Hossain.
The NBR needs to have an IT-based organisational infrastructure, he told a virtual members conference titled Policy Paper on Direct and Indirect Tax organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB).