ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has declared here Saturday that the taxpayers', who filed Income Tax Returns till 8th December, 2020 were 1.78 million. That number has further increased to 2.19 million with the addition of 377,766 more returns filed from 9th December till December 26. Income Tax paid during filing of returns stood at Rs. 31 billion. The number of Income Tax returns for previous year till the same period was 1.98 million and the tax paid was Rs. 16 billion. This year there is twofold increase in income tax paid with the annual returns.