MULTAN: The Regional Tax Office Multan taxpayers are facing hurdles in filing their income tax returns from last two days. Taxpayers are facing difficulty in e-filing of income tax returns for Tax Year 2017-18 due to sluggish response from IRIS software of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
According to tax experts of Multan Tax Bar Association (MTBA), IRIS software is still not properly operative and it is giving too much error at the time of e-filing Income tax returns. Taxpayers are worried that deadline for e-filing of income tax returns for Tax Year 2017-18 approaches and taxpayers are still experiencing programming errors in the IRIS software.
Slow Processing of FBR IRIS system affecting the process of e-filing income tax returns badly and filers are concerned to file their Income tax returns in given deadline of FBR. Due to load on the FBR e-portal Server did not respond to command or working very slow. Filers are unable to open few files and client was unable to add the new client in their portal due to non-response from system at the time of filing their tax returns through e-filing.
Taxpayers contacted the Regional Tax Office Multan facilitation center after facing issues in e –filing system but authorities informed that IRIS system is overloaded from headquarter and its errors will be rectified very soon. Tax experts have demanded from Federal Board of Revenue to remove the existing bugs from IRIS Software that taxpayers should file their tax returns easily.