The National Board of Revenue yesterday said it will accept tax returns from individual taxpayers on the first day of January 2023.

The announcement comes as December 30 and December 31 are weekly holidays at government offices.

On November 30, the tax administration extended deadline regarding filing of tax returns by a month following demands from various quarters.

Taxpayers will be able to submit their returns manually during office hours of January 1, said Shaheen Akhter, member tax administration and human resource management at the NBR.  

"We are getting good responses from taxpayers," she said.

Bangladesh has more than 80 lakh registered taxpayers but 27.5 lakh taxpayers filed their income and wealth statements to the tax offices for the current assessment year of 2022-23 until December 22 this year, said a senior official of the NBR.