Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Sunday ordered the government to collect all kinds of taxes and vat from the payment given to all the social media operators including Google, Facebook, Youtube and Amazon as per the prevailing law of the country.
National Board of Revenue, Bangladesh Bank and BTRC have been asked to comply with the order.
The court also asked the government to collect the arrears of the tax on the payment given to the companies for last five years. The NBR is asked to submit a report in the court their collection in every six months. The High Court bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil passed the order while delivering a verdict after holding hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.
The writ petition was filed in 2018 as a public interest litigation by six SC lawyers including Mohammad Humayun Kabir Pallob, Mohammad Kawser, Mohammad Majedul Kader and Md Sazzadul Islam.
Following the writ petition, the HC in April 12, 2018 directed the government to realise appropriate tax, VAT and other charges from the revenues earned by different digital platforms like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and YouTube.
In response to the writ petition, the court also asked the government to form a special committee to assess the amount of their financial transactions in recent years and to submit an assessment report to this court by June 25, 2018.
The High Court on Sunday ordered the government to collect all kinds of taxes and vat from the payment given to all the social media operators including Google, Facebook, Youtube and Amazon as per the prevailing law of the country.
National Board of Revenue, Bangladesh Bank and BTRC have been asked to comply with the order.
The court also asked the government to collect the arrears of the tax on the payment given to the companies for last five years. The NBR is asked to submit a report in the court their collection in every six months. The High Court bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil passed the order while delivering a verdict after holding hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.
The writ petition was filed in 2018 as a public interest litigation by six SC lawyers including Mohammad Humayun Kabir Pallob, Mohammad Kawser, Mohammad Majedul Kader and Md Sazzadul Islam.
Following the writ petition, the HC in April 12, 2018 directed the government to realise appropriate tax, VAT and other charges from the revenues earned by different digital platforms like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and YouTube.
In response to the writ petition, the court also asked the government to form a special committee to assess the amount of their financial transactions in recent years and to submit an assessment report to this court by June 25, 2018.
