After costly crises and commotion by those cheated comes a remedy as the government recognizes e-commerce as a separate business under supervision of the revenue authority. Officials say the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has, finally, included e-commerce as a separate business to issue electronic taxpayer- identification number (e-TIN). The e-commerce businesses, which started journey since 1999, were obtaining tax registration as Information Technology-Enabled Service (ITES) due to absence of a separate category on the e-TIN-obtaining website. The tax authority addressed the issue after the problem had been raised by the association leaders earlier, said tax commissioner Md Mahmudur Rahman at a meeting with the e-commerce association leaders on Wednesday. The tax officials were also facing difficulties in identifying e-commerce...