Dhaka, Nov. 23 -- The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended the deadline for individual taxpayers to submit their income-tax returns until December 31, pushing back the original deadline of November 30.

Additionally, the NBR has issued another order today (Sunday) stating that if any taxpayer is unable to submit their income tax return online due to registration issues with the e-return system, they can apply to the relevant Deputy Commissioner of Taxes by December 15 with specific justification.

The apex authority for tax administration has made online income tax return filing mandatory for all individual taxpayers this year, except for senior taxpayers aged 65 years or above, physically disabled or specially-abled taxpayers, Ba...