Promoting state owned products in Tax Fair
The weeklong “Income Tax Fair” of 2018 in Dhaka and other divisional headquarters across the country has been successfully held from November 13 to November 19 for the ninth consecutive year, aiming to provide better services to the taxpayers and include more taxpayers in the tax net.
As a visitor to the fair, I have an observation and some recommendations. The drinking water bottles provided there with the breakfast, lunch and snack for a huge number of fair stakeholders like tax officers, staffs and volunteers were from a private multinational company which could be replaced by the ‘Shanti’, ‘Mukta’ or ‘Sena’ brands’ drinking water. On the other hand, authority should promote and experiment the newly invented ‘Shonali’ bag there beside the praiseworthy initiative of using jute bags as gift products for the taxpayers. I think these initiatives may help advertise the domestic and state owned products.
Md. Tarek Aziz Bappi
University of Dhaka
