Dhaka May 6, 2025, 3:38 pm
Children who are employed in risky jobs are now getting skill development training and informal education for duration of 18 months and 6 months respectively
25 per cent customs duty and 3 per cent regulatory duty on rice imports to protect the farmers as the country got a bumper paddy production in the boro season
Finance Minister AMA Muhith in his Budget Speech said GDP growth rate will be 7.8 per cent in FY 2018-19 and inflation will come down to 5.6 per cent by the end of the fiscal year
Rejecting expectation for increasing the threshold to Tk 3,00,000 to offer relief to the individual taxpayers, Muhith has made an exception, though. The threshold for a parent or guardian of a person with disability will be h
To encourage the use of green product jute, a 5 per cent supplementary duty has been proposed on all polythene bags, plastic bags and poly-packaging in the budget for fiscal 2018-19
Flats upto 1100sqft, which had 1.5 per cent VAT, will now come under the purview of 2 per cent VAT, according to the proposition of Finance Minister AMA Muhith
Additional VAT has been imposed on men’s shaving items such as shaving creams, after shave, and bath-salts, washroom fresheners and other similar products. Now, the VAT rate on these products has been raised to 15 per cent fr
Minister Muhith proposes to impose 5 per cent VAT on all e-commerce, including those using Facebook for sales, in the budget for fiscal 2018-19
The lofty budget set a target of Tk 3.39 trillion revenue earnings, of which Tk 2.96 trillion will be collected by the National Board of Revenue (NBR)
This will be the country’s 47th budget and the 19th of the Awami League government while the 12th for Muhith
Finance minister AMA Muhith is set to place the budget before Jatiya Sangsad with a record outlay of over Tk 4.64 trillion.
The budget for FY2018-19 is likely to be worth Tk. 468,200 crore, which happens to be about 16 per cent higher than the last year’s proposed budget of Tk. 400,266 crore.
Brokers said the investors went for buying shares in anticipation of corporate tax cut of listed banks and financial institutions in the upcoming budget for financial year 2018-19 (FY19).
Govt likely to increase the amount against various programmes of social safety net
The House (Budget Session) would sit at 10:30 am every working day
This will be the fifth budget session of the current parliament
NBR is likely to reduce the existing rates of depreciation facility in the case of imported reconditioned cars in the FY 2018-19 budget
Muhith to place the country’s 47th national budget at JS from 12:30 pm
Muhith also said they were not changing the tax slabs like in the previous budget.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith is expected to place the budget at Jatiya Sangsad on June 07 next.
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