Everything was going well for the online tax return filing project until the end of 2019.
The first online tax return filing scheme — Bangladesh Integrated Tax Administration System (BITAX) — completed on June 2018 and the National Board of Revenue’s agreement with the vendor expired on 29 November 2019.
Just a month later, the first blow came from the then NBR Chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan.