FBR’s online return filing portal restores after disruption

FBR’s online return filing portal restores after disruption

KARACHI: The online return filing portal of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) restored after witnessing disruption on Monday.

The IRIS – the online web portal of the FBR for income tax return filing – is working normally by Monday evening after taxpayers complained that the portal was not responding during first half.

The portal was experiencing outage till noon on Monday.

Earlier, in the day a large number of taxpayers unable to file their annual income tax returns on Monday as the official web portal of the FBR was not responding.

The official website of the FBR https://www.fbr.gov.pk was responding very slowly. Further, the IRIS portal – the return filing portal – is showing different massage – including internal server errors.

Tax practitioners said that last night the portal was responding well and they had filed returns of their clients. However, from Monday morning till noon the IRIS portal https://iris.fbr.gov.pk/infosys/public/txplogin.xhtml was not responding. However, in some cases it opens but with slow response.