Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, among others, at a ceremony titled ‘Naba Diganter Pathe’ organised on the occasion of militants’ surrender at RAB Headquarters in the city on Thursday.

15 Jan 2021, 12:00 am0

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, among others, at a ceremony titled 'Naba Diganter Pathe' organised on the occasion of militants' surrender at RAB Headquarters in the city on Thursday.

Big shots swallow half of govt. revenues

THE government has offered around Tk 1.47 trillion in the form of tax exemptions at import stage to various sectors since 2014-15 fiscal year until January last, while each year budgetary size is increasing with high deficiency. The amount of tax, waived by the government, is nearly half of the current fiscal’s total tax-revenue collection target of Tk 2.96 trillion. It ultimately will result in Tk 441.17 billion revenue loss in 2017-18. What’s going on! At one side, the central...

20 Mar 2019, 12:00 am