Want people-friendly taxation system

Recently many retired employees of the government and autonomous organisations (like universities) have received notices to pay Advance Income Tax (AIT) for the 2015-16 taxation year in four installments through chalan or postal order, failing which will result in a fine with interests. Some of these notices ask the tax-payers to pay unpaid taxes for the last few years too. Now the questions are: (a) What is the logic behind asking retired persons who depend on more or less fixed incomes and making them undergo trouble to meet the formalities with the bank and tax office? (b) What is wrong with paying tax as per earlier procedure, i.e. by the stipulated date to pay yearly tax? And, (c) How fair is it to ask for unpaid tax without providing any clarification once they have obtained clearance/tax payment certificate for past taxation year/s after due scrutiny by tax officers appointed by the government?

As a senior citizen, I strongly feel the above situation created in the tax payment system is unfair to the elderly people. It also makes the efforts of the government to collect revenues very unpopular. I would request the authorities concerned at the NBR to do away with the above AIT practices for the senior citizens in order to make payment of taxes hassle-free and people-friendly as we feel it unnecessary and costly for both the tax-payers and the system itself.

ME
Dhanmondi, Dhaka