Income Tax Filing Consultancy in Bangladesh
PayrollBD prepares and files income tax returns in Bangladesh for individuals and companies. We compute the liability, claim the rebates you are entitled to, file through the channel your situation requires, and answer the tax office when a notice follows. You approve the numbers before anything is submitted.
What is income tax filing consultancy?
Income tax filing consultancy is professional support for preparing and submitting a return to the National Board of Revenue, complete and on the date the law fixes. The consultant computes taxable income, applies the current year’s rates and rebates, files through the correct channel including the NBR e-Return portal, and handles what follows.
The obligation stays with the taxpayer; the work of meeting it moves.
What does the service cover?
Seven services cover the whole filing cycle for individuals and companies. What separates them is who the taxpayer is and which channel the return must travel through, not the amount of work involved. Each one ends with a document you keep: an acknowledgement, a certificate, or a written position you can produce later.
Bookkeeping or VAT alongside income tax sits under our accounting and taxation services, and wider advisory under tax consultation services.
- Personal income tax return filing for salaried employees, professionals and foreign nationals working in Bangladesh
- Corporate income tax return filing covering computation, adjustment and submission for companies
- e-TIN registration support for obtaining or updating a Taxpayer Identification Number
- NBR e-Return filing through the official online portal at etaxnbr.gov.bd
- Withholding tax return support for the periodic filings a company owes
- Tax representative services covering notices and hearings before the tax authority
- Tax planning and advisory on rebates, allowances and compliant structuring before the year closes
Personal income tax return filing
Where income passes the tax-free threshold set by the current Finance Act, or a TIN is held in most practical situations, a return is due. We prepare the computation, claim the rebates and allowances that apply, and file through the NBR system.
Since 28 June 2026 individual filing is online only, with five exempt categories set out in the table below, so the first question we settle is which channel your situation actually requires.
Corporate income tax filing
Companies file annually under the Income Tax Act 2023, generally by the fifteenth day of the seventh month after the income year ends. We prepare the return end to end: computation from the financial statements, adjustments, advance tax and withholding reconciliation, and submission, with representation if the return is selected for audit.
Where the company runs staff through an employer of record, the filing is aligned to the employment record so the two agree.
e-TIN registration
A Taxpayer Identification Number comes before the first return. We obtain one where none is held, and update an existing one where the details on it no longer match, so the filing is not held up waiting for the number it has to be made under.
Monthly salary tax handled at source is part of our payroll processing service, and market-entry filings align with employer of record and corporate secretarial work.
When does your return fall due?
Three dates and one rule decide when and how a return travels. The table sets out what falls due, when, and which channel it must use. The online rule is the newest of the four and the one most often missed, because it changed only in June 2026 and it removed an option rather than adding a requirement.
| What falls due | When it falls due | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Individual return | 30 November of the assessment year | e-Return portal, online only |
| Company return | Fifteenth day of the seventh month after year end | As required for the company |
| Withholding return | Periodic, against the deduction cycle | Filed by the company |
| Exempt from online only | Since 28 June 2026 | Age 65 plus, certified disability, resident abroad, representative of deceased, foreign national |
Rates, slabs and the tax-free threshold are set each year by the Finance Act, so the figures applied to your return are the current year’s rather than last year’s. The online-filing rule comes from NBR Special Order No. 1/2026, issued on 28 June 2026, and the five exempt categories in the table are the ones that order names.
Official notices are published by the National Board of Revenue, and returns are submitted through the NBR e-Return portal. Reviewed by Eicra Binte Islam, HR Admin, PayrollBD.
How does the filing process work?
Five stages, and the numbers are agreed with you before anything reaches the tax office. The sequence exists because a return filed on an unreviewed computation is harder to correct than one that took an extra day to check.
Each stage produces something you keep, so the file is complete on the day it is asked for rather than assembled afterwards.
- Share your situation. Whether you file as an individual or a company, and where the income comes from. This decides the channel and the document set.
- Collect the documents. We send a checklist matched to your case and review what comes back, naming anything missing before work starts.
- Compute and review. Taxable income calculated, current-year rates, rebates and credits applied, and the numbers walked through with you.
- File and acknowledge. Submitted through the correct channel, including the NBR e-Return portal, with the acknowledgement slip handed back.
- Handle what follows. If a notice, query or hearing follows, we respond and represent you against the record already on file.
Nothing reaches the tax office until stage three is agreed with you. That is also why stage five is quick: if a notice arrives months later, it is answered from the file the first four stages already built, rather than from a record assembled after the question was asked.
What documents will you need?
Two document sets, one for individuals and one for companies. Bring what you have and we will tell you what is missing rather than sending the list back. Most delays at this stage come from a single certificate nobody thought to ask for, not from a large gap in the file.
For individuals
- e-TIN certificate and National ID or passport
- Salary certificate or employer statement for the income year
- Bank statements covering the income year
- Investment and rebate documents such as savings instruments and insurance
- Details of any other income from rent, business or capital gains
- Last year’s return and acknowledgement where one exists
For companies
- Audited or management financial statements for the income year
- e-TIN and incorporation documents
- Withholding tax challans and advance tax payment records
- Bank statements and loan documents
- Prior year’s return and assessment records
Why use a filing consultant?
Five reasons account for most engagements, and none of them is the arithmetic. A return is not difficult to compute; it is easy to file late, in the wrong channel, or without the credit you already paid. Each item below is a cost that lands after the deadline rather than before it.
- Deadlines held. Late filing carries penalty and interest that usually exceed the cost of filing properly.
- Rebates actually claimed. Allowable investments and credits are the first thing lost in a rushed return.
- Correct channel and forms. The e-Return rule, the exemption categories and the document requirements changed in 2026.
- A buffer with the tax office. Notices and hearings are answered by someone who handles them routinely.
- Cross-border situations. Expatriate and foreign-employer filings are ordinary work here, not exceptions.
Where do filings go wrong?
Six failures account for most of what we are asked to unwind, and five of them are avoidable at no cost. They are listed in the order we meet them rather than by severity, because the early ones tend to cause the later ones.
- Filing under the wrong assessment year. Income earned July to June belongs to the assessment year that follows.
- Waiting for an extension. The NBR extends by official order sometimes, not always; filing late on that expectation invites penalty.
- Ignoring the online-only rule. Since 28 June 2026 paper filing is closed to most individuals.
- Omitting the assets and liabilities statement where required. An incomplete return can be treated as not properly filed.
- Losing withholding credit. Tax already deducted at source goes unclaimed when challans and certificates are not collected.
- Leaving a notice unanswered. An unanswered notice escalates; a documented reply usually closes it.
Why work with PayrollBD?
Four things separate this from a filing bureau. None of them is a claim about size or reputation, and all four are checkable against the work itself rather than against a description of it. Read them as conditions of the engagement rather than as selling points, because that is how they are written into it.
- One partner, one picture. Income tax filing sits alongside payroll, accounting and corporate compliance, so the return matches the books it came from.
- Representation, not paperwork. We answer the tax office directly when a question follows a filing.
- Foreign and cross-border work. Expatriate returns and foreign-employer situations are routine here.
- The computation before the filing. You see and approve the numbers before anything is submitted.
What do taxpayers ask first?
These four questions come up before nearly every engagement. Each answer states the position first and then explains it, and where a rule has a source the source is named so it can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Is online tax filing mandatory in Bangladesh?
Yes, for most individual taxpayers. NBR Special Order No. 1/2026, issued on 28 June 2026, requires individual taxpayers to file through the e-Return portal at etaxnbr.gov.bd.
The order names five exempt categories: taxpayers aged 65 or above, physically disabled or special-needs taxpayers on submission of a certificate, Bangladeshi taxpayers residing abroad, representatives filing on behalf of deceased taxpayers, and foreign nationals working in Bangladesh. Those five may still file online voluntarily.
When is the income tax return deadline in Bangladesh?
For individuals the standard filing deadline is 30 November of the assessment year. The NBR has extended it by official order in some years, but an extension is announced rather than assumed, so the working date is 30 November. Companies generally file by the fifteenth day of the seventh month after the end of their income year.
We hold both dates against your own income year rather than against the calendar year.
What documents do I need to file my return?
For a typical individual: the e-TIN certificate, National ID or passport, a salary certificate, bank statements for the income year, investment and rebate documents, and last year’s return where one exists. Companies add financial statements, withholding challans and advance tax records.
The exact list depends on the income sources, so we confirm it against your case before any work starts rather than sending a generic checklist.
Can foreign nationals working in Bangladesh file income tax returns?
Yes. Foreign nationals with taxable income in Bangladesh file returns in the same way resident taxpayers do. They are one of the five categories NBR Special Order No. 1/2026 exempts from the online-only rule, so they may file on paper or use the e-Return portal voluntarily.
We handle either channel and reconcile the return against the withholding records your employer’s payroll already holds.
File on time and move on
Send your situation, individual or company, and we come back with the document list your case actually needs and a quote against it. Where the return is straightforward we say so, and where it is not we name what makes it complex before any fee is agreed.