KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has notified that all field offices of Customs and Inland Revenue will remain open and observe extended working hours i.e. 09:00 am to 08:00 pm on Wednesday the March 30, 2016and 09:00 am to 10:00 pm on Thursday the March 31, 2016 for receipt of income tax returns and collection of duties/taxes.

FBR has advised all the chief commissioners and chief collectors to establish liaison with State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and authorized branches of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) to ensure transfer of tax collection by these branches on March 31, 2015 to the respective offices of SBP on the same date so as to ensure the accounting of the same towards the collection for the month of March 2016.