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Twenty-four per cent of the taxpayer identification number holding physicians in the capital Dhaka has failed to submit their income tax returns for the fiscal year 2021-22, according to the National Board of Revenue.
Of the 35,000 TIN holding physicians, 26,611 submitted their returns by the January 2 deadline.
The rate of income tax return submission by the physicians, however, increased by 50 per cent in FY22 as the number was 17,123 in FY21.
The number of electronic TIN holding physicians rose by 30 per cent in the current fiscal year to 35,000 compared with that of 27,000 in the FY 2020-2021, according to NBR data.
The amount of tax paid by the physicians increased by 10 per cent in the ongoing fiscal year to around Tk 125 crore compared with that of Tk 114 crore in the past fiscal year, the data showed.
NBR officials said that there was no data on how many physicians were practicing in the capital Dhaka.
They said, ‘We are working on tracing those physicians who do not have electronic TINs.’ The Income Tax Zone-10 in Dhaka, which is responsible for collecting tax from physicians practicing in Dhaka, has already taken some measures, including visiting the doctors’ chambers, to check their tax payment status, they said.
Tax commissioner of Taxes Zone-10 Md Lutfur Azeem said, ‘We took several initiatives to create awareness among doctors about payment of tax.’
He said, ‘Though the revenue earnings from physicians’ services increased in FY22 compared with that in the previous fiscal year, we are not satisfied with the performance.’
‘We have prepared a database of doctors, collecting data related to actual income of doctors through visiting chambers, checking registers and adopting other intelligence means and conducting spot assessments to issue e-TINs to new taxpayers would also continue,’ he said.
(NA)
