Applicants need NID or passport
The National Board of Revenue will issue taxpayer’s identification number certificate online from July 1 to reduce hassle for taxpayers, prevent issuance of fake TIN and its misuse, NBR officials said.
Once the system is introduced, national identity card or passport will be required mandatorily for receiving TIN certificate, they said.The existing TIN holders will have to register with the online system as the revenue board will change all TIN numbers to 12-digit from the existing 10-digit, they added.
The officials said under the system, a taxpayer would be able to receive TIN certificate sitting at home or anywhere applying online through a dedicated web site of the revenue board and there would be no manual TIN issuance facility after July 1.
‘The NBR has already developed a specialised web portal to facilitate computer generated TIN issuance and to prepare
database of taxpayers’ details online,’ a high NBR official told New Age on Saturday.
People will have to have either NID or passport for getting TIN certificates online through the web site which will generate the certificates instantly, he said.
He said that there would also be another option for applicants to get the certificate through their e-mail addresses.
NBR officials said an applicant would have to provide NID or passport number while applying for web-based TIN certificate and the information preserved in the NID server would be generated automatically.
Applicants will have to provide other required information, they said.
‘Once the application procedure is completed, computer generated TIN certificate will be issued,’ they said.
The officials said that applicants without having online facility at home would be able to get online TIN certificate from the NBR field offices.
As per the NBR plan, registration activity for the existing TIN holders will start from July 1 and they get six months for registering with the system and get 12-digit new TIN certificates.
The NBR will also update database of the existing TIN holders if they provide information during submission of income tax return in the coming fiscal year.
The tax administration is implementing a project titled ‘TIN automation and database cleansing’ with the assistance of International Finance Corporation for preparing online database and providing TIN online.
According to the NBR, there are around 37 lakh TIN holders in the country. Of them, 11.65 lakh submitted tax returns in the current fiscal year.
The NBR, through an intensive survey under the project, found only 20 lakh TINs were valid and remaining TINs were either fake, blank or TIN holders did not submit tax returns, an official involved in the survey said.
For issuing online TIN, the web portal will be made linked with the NID database of the Election Commission to verify individual applicant while corporate taxpayers’ application will be checked with the database of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms.
-With New Age input
