Reza Mahmud : Dhaka South City Corporation is in trouble, as it has to realise Tk 60 crore of holding taxes from 35 ministries. The corporation cannot, as such, pay bills to the construction firms for which progress of development work under many projects get slow. “We are in fund crisis as the offices of the 35 ministries repeatedly failed to pay their holding taxes amounting Tk 60,32, 86,971. We have asked the secretaries of those ministries to clear the taxes soon,” Khan Mohammad Bilal, the Chief Executive Officer of DSCC told The New Nation on Saturday. According to DSCC official sources, the Finance Ministry has to pay Tk 11,72,18,629, the Housing and Public Works Ministry Tk 9,96,97,125 of 2017-2018 fiscal year, the Education Ministry Tk 6,53,86,693, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry Tk 5, 25, 42, 377, the ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Tk 82,74, 390, the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Tk 41, 90, 056, the Primary and Mass Education Ministry Tk 51,05,758, the Road, Transports and Bridges Ministry Tk 35,48,880, the Food Ministry Tk 12,07,444, the Law, Justice and Parliament Affair Ministry about Tk 18 lakh, the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry about Tk five lakh, Ministry of Land about Tk one crore, Ministry of Industry Tk one crore, Ministry of Shipping about Tk 43 lakh, Ministry of Social Welfare about Tk two lakh, Ministry of Post Office, Telecommunication and Information Technology about Tk 57 lakh and Home Ministry about Tk one crore. The list of tax defaulters include Information Ministry, Ministry of Textiles, Cultural Affair Ministry, Religious Affairs Ministry and Ministry of Liberation War Affairs also, among others. The DSCC officials said preferring anonymity that the ministries repeatedly failed to pay their taxes. “The DSCC face problems to continue its development work of many projects due to fund crisis. We have sent letters several times, but fruitless,” one of the officials said. Khan Mohammad Bilal said that they personally contacted with the secretaries about the issue. The secretaries said that they have also problem. If the government gives fund, they shall pay all dues soon.
