TA 7604-BAN: Supporting the Governance Management Project – Electronic Submission of Tax Returns (for direct tax)

 Strengthening Governance Management Program (SGMP) was a successive project to the previous Good Governance Program (GGP), a governance initiative, which aimed at policy reforms, anticorruption, national integrity, right to information, etc. One part of SGMP project aimed to assist National Board of Revenue (NBR) for introducing online filing of tax returns and digitization of return processing. ADB had appointed e.Gen Consultants Ltd. as national firm for providing Technical Assistance (TA) to NBR in designing and installing the aforementioned system

Description of actual services provided by the staff within the assignment:

• Analyzed business process of NBR;

• Analyzed software and hardware requirements for installing digitized tax return system;

• Defined modules of software functionalities depending on the business process;

• Defined hardware requirements for data center and data recovery center;

• Drafted criteria for issuing request for proposal for the interested candidate firms to be participated through ICB two stage bidding procedure;

• Strengthened ICT Capacity of the concerned Tax Officials’ for managing Direct Tax Returns Processing Center (DTRPC) and the Data recovery centre as well;

• Strengthened ICT Capacity of the concerned Tax Officials’ for managing Regional Data Entry Centers (RDECs); Strengthening ICT Capacity of the Income Tax Circle Offices;