ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has added over 114,000 return filers to Active Taxpayers List (ATL) following the grant of extension in filing income tax returns for Tax Year 2018 up to March 31, 2019.
The FBR issued weekly updated ATL 2018 on Monday, which showed the number of active taxpayers increased to 1.75 million.
The FBR issued first ATL 2018 on March 01, 2019 which had carried 1.6 million taxpayers in the list.
The appearance of ATL is mandatory for availing reduced rate of withholding tax rate and other benefits available only to return filers.
Through Finance Act, 2018, a section 182A was inserted to Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 which barred the late filers to appear on the ATL.
Therefore, the ATL issued on March 01, 2019 only those taxpayers were included who filed their returns by December 15, 2018 in case of salaried persons, business individuals and companies with special years and December 31, 2018 for companies with normal tax year.
However, the FBR last week extended the last date for filing income tax returns for all classes of taxpayers. Hence, those taxpayers who have filed their returns after December 15 or December 31 became eligible for ATL.
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