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Taxes on almost all daily essentials, including rice, lentils, fish, meat, sugar, salt, edible oil, and spices, have been reduced to help control prices and ease the burden on ordinary people.

Mahdi Amin, prime minister’s adviser

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“Higher allocations alone cannot guarantee better outcomes. Weak implementation, governance failures, procurement inefficiencies, and corruption can undermine the effectiveness of public spending.”

Fahmida Khatun, executive director of CPD

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Although the government projects a deficit of around Tk 2.5 lakh crore, it may actually reach Tk 4.5 lakh crore… Based on this estimate, the budget could be the largest deficit in Bangladesh’s history.

MP Atik Mujahid, head of NCP’s shadow budget committee