A team of the Economic Reporters Forum of Dhaka visited the regional tax office of Chittagong on Friday and held view exchange meeting with the tax officials there.
Revenue earnings from Chittagong region witnessed a rise as the NBR collected Tk 4,384 crore as tax-revenue during July-January period of fiscal year 2016-17, up by 26.41 percent from the same period of the last fiscal’s Tk 3,468 crore.
Additional commissioner of Taxes Md Bazlul Kabir said this while exchanging views with representatives of Economic Reporters Forum (ERF) at the regional tax office at Agrabad, Chittagong on Friday.
He said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has planned to collect 13 percent of its total tax-revenue earning target from the Chittagong region. “We have been able to collect more than half of targeted Tk 9,500 crore in the seven months of the current fiscal,” said Kabir.
Replying to a question, he said the lion share of the tax-revenue comes from Chittagong Port.
Besides, BSRM, Abul Khair, Berger Paints, Bangladesh Petroleum (BPC) and Karnaphuli Gas Company are the organizations which are in the list of large taxpayers, he added.
NBR has targeted to earn Tk 73,300 crore as tax-revenue FY17.
Joint commissioner of Chittagong Customs House Md Rais Uddin Khan, ERF general secretary Ziaur Rahman, assistant vice-president Salauddin Bablu, finance secretary SM Rashidul Islam, among others, attended the view-exchange meeting.
The ERF members also went round the tax-museum of the Chittagong regional tax office.
