Md Asaduz Zaman

Tax reform panel also calls for dropping the excise duty on bank deposits

The government is set to build a 1,000-bed hospital in Nilphamari at a cost of Tk 2,459 crore, with most of the funds supposed to be coming from China, to improve access to modern healthcare in the northern region.

The cost of the Rooppur nuclear power plant is set to rise by Tk 25,593 crore, pushing the total outlay to Tk 138,685 crore and extending the completion deadline to 2028.

As Bangladesh approaches the February general election, political parties are once again centring their campaign promises on the household ledger.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) posted a 14 percent growth in revenue collection in the first half of the current fiscal year (FY), yet missed the target for the period by a staggering Tk 46,000 crore or nearly 10 percent.

Taxpayers struggle to recover overpaid taxes as the manual refund system leaves money inaccessible

Following months of a brief pause, inflationary pressures continued to rise in December for the second consecutive month.

A five-member advisory committee was first formed to guide the reforms

Protest, turmoil, and punishment -- these three words defined Bangladesh’s revenue sector in 2025, a year marked by the split of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), a major source of government income..Following a mass uprising in August last year, the interim government launched long-awa

Arbitrary increase, slack law enforcement, high inflation to blame

Layoffs outpaced hiring, while employment shifted toward low-quality informal activity

The NBR submitted the manpower proposal to the finance ministry last week

Construction costs in Bangladesh fell for the seventh consecutive month in November, as official data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) showed a continued slide in building-material prices amid weakening market demand, according to industry insiders.

VAT is charged at every stage of production and sale, and consumers always bear the final cost

Economists warn of raising further

Revenue collection rose nearly 16 percent year-on-year in the first four months of the current fiscal year, thanks to a turbulent base period last year and a more settled political and business climate now.

Nearly a decade ago, the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) took up a project to build an industrial park in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail. The goal was noble—creating employment through industrialisation two years after implementation and eventually reducing poverty.

The ongoing shortfall in the supply of medicines, family planning materials and the procurement of medical equipment is likely to ease soon as three related projects are scheduled to be placed before the ECNEC for approval today.

Non-food prices cross the 9% mark again

In terms of intermediate goods, LC opening rose by 1.59% during the period