Dhaka, Feb. 27 -- The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is planning to make it compulsory for all the individual taxpayers to submit their income tax returns online from next fiscal.

The revenue collecting authority has taken the move as it got good results from the online income tax return submission this year.

Initially the online tax return has been open for all taxpayers as per their wish. But later the NBR made it mandatory for the government employees under the jurisdiction of income tax circles located in Dhaka North, Dhaka South, Gazipur and Narayanganj City Corporation, as well as sections of the private sector.

Online filing of income tax returns has been made mandatory for working officers/employees of all scheduled banks, all...