Dhaka March 15, 2025, 8:58 am
The Centre for Non Resident Bangladeshis (Centre for NRB), a non-profit research organisation, made the plea to 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
The banks are allowed to avail liquidity from the central bank for durations ranging from seven days to a maximum of 28 days.
The BPC is violating both policy and rules concerning the public accounts. This is in no way acceptable
The project-executing agencies concerned have sought two more years and an increased amount of funds for completing the BRT line due to failure in timely execution of the project
The House (Budget Session) would sit at 10:30 am every working day
The last banking commission was set up in 2004. Recommendations of such commissions were not fully implemented
Muhith to place the country’s 47th national budget at JS from 12:30 pm
There will be no major change in the ‘election year’ budget
Muhith also said they were not changing the tax slabs like in the previous budget.
The inflation rate fallen by 0.06 percentage points in last month compared to 5.63 per cent in April. the point-to-point inflation a year ago in May 2017 was recorded higher at 5.76 per cent
The tax authorities came up with the response after the Power Division sought opinion of NBR whether the existing statutory regulatory orders (SROs) will allow the mega power plant to enjoy the tax benefits
The CPD, a leading private think-tank, said the corporate tax rates should not be cut in a hasty manner and on an ad-hoc basis, as it fetches about two-thirds of the income tax revenue annually.
Tk 262.26 billion is likely to be allocated for the country’s power and energy sector in the next national budget for the 2018-19 financial year (FY19)
The liberalisation of foreign exchange rules could lead to a significant reduction in the cost of capital for Bangladeshi private firms amidst the current liquidity shortage
The country received $1,267.61m remittance in May 2017 and $1331.33m in Apr 2018
The power division took 113 projects for power sector development
In the outgoing fiscal 2017-18 fiscal year, the NBR got Tk 248,190cr as target
The delay in the laying of pipeline along with tie-up and 'synchronisation' complexities has stalled the supply of LNG to clients over the past one month
Government is yet to decide whether it would set up the deep-seaport at Sonadia in the Bay of Bengal. Besides, the development work of the Payra seaport has started well behind the schedule