Dhaka, Jan. 5 -- The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken a step towards fully digitising the country's VAT administration by introducing a new initiative that allows taxpayers to bring all previously submitted paper-based VAT returns under the e-VAT system.

It has added a sub-module titled "Hard Copy Return Entry" to the e-VAT platform, enabling taxpayers to directly enter their past hard copy monthly returns into the online system.

The revenue authority issued a circular to this end on Monday outlining the operational procedures of the newly added sub-module.

Taxpayers who had earlier submitted VAT returns in paper form can now upload and store those returns in the e-VAT system themselves, following the instructions in the circu...