The Sylhet Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) on Thursday organised a workshop on 'Fundamentals of Personal Income Tax and Returns Filing through TAXdo' online.

Experts at the workshop explained the process of filling out individual income tax returns online by ‘TAXdo’ application.

The SCCI organised the programme in association with the Sylhet District Tax Bar Association and SMAC IT Limited, which has developed TAXdo.

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SCCI President Tamim Ahmed presided over the programme. Syed Zakir Hossain, Commissioner of Sylhet Tax Zone, was present as the guest of honour.

Snehasish Barua FCA, the Director of SMAC IT Ltd, explained the app's transformative capabilities and impact.

Regarding 'TAXdo', he said that through this software, anyone can fill out income tax returns online within a few minutes at home. It is a fully automated system, which allows anyone to easily prepare income tax returns as per rules based on inputs.

“TAXdo automatically calculates income tax when users simply input their income from various sources into the software,” he said.

President of SCCI Tamim Ahmed said that Sylhet region is populated by expatriates, the flow of remittances is high and people have money in their hands. Therefore, the possibility of tax collection is also high. But due to the lack of tax awareness and the complexity of the existing tax payment process, many people do not pay taxes.

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He called the NBR to make the process of personal tax payment easier and to increase tax awareness to encourage common people to pay taxes to increase revenue.

SCCI’s Senior Vice President Falah Uddin Ali Ahmed and Chamber VAT, Tax and Tariff Committee Co-Chairman Mohammad Tofazzal Hossain FCA, Sylhet District Tax Bar Association President M. EM Iqbalur Rahman and Vice President Advocate Abdul Alim Pathan, Vice President of SCCI Atiq Hossain, among others, spoke in the function.

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