Our Correspondent :
Hundreds of workers have formed a human chain to protest the ‘conspiracy oriented’ tax hiking on bidi from the Fiscal Year 2020-21 which already has affected the livelihood of several lakh ultra-poor workers, traders and cultivators amid the corona virus pandemic.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has hiked the tax on bidi influenced by a vested quarters of cigarette companies to ruin the country’s long traditional tobacco farming, producing trading, said a press release.
Speakers said this in a human-chain organized by Bogura Bidi Sramik and Karmochari Oikkyo Union held at in front of National Board of Revenue (NBR) district office yesterday.
They have placed some seven demands, including withdrawal of recently hiked of tax Tk 4 per cent in each packet of bidi, removal of 10 per cent advanced income tax on bidi, declare the bidi as the cottage industry and ensuring six days working facilities in a week for the workers in the factories.
The demonstrators also sent a memorandum with the demands to the NBR Chairman through Tax Commissioner of the Bogura Divisional Office to take the necessary steps in the in this connection.
Hundreds of workers have formed a human chain to protest the ‘conspiracy oriented’ tax hiking on bidi from the Fiscal Year 2020-21 which already has affected the livelihood of several lakh ultra-poor workers, traders and cultivators amid the corona virus pandemic.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has hiked the tax on bidi influenced by a vested quarters of cigarette companies to ruin the country’s long traditional tobacco farming, producing trading, said a press release.
Speakers said this in a human-chain organized by Bogura Bidi Sramik and Karmochari Oikkyo Union held at in front of National Board of Revenue (NBR) district office yesterday.
They have placed some seven demands, including withdrawal of recently hiked of tax Tk 4 per cent in each packet of bidi, removal of 10 per cent advanced income tax on bidi, declare the bidi as the cottage industry and ensuring six days working facilities in a week for the workers in the factories.
The demonstrators also sent a memorandum with the demands to the NBR Chairman through Tax Commissioner of the Bogura Divisional Office to take the necessary steps in the in this connection.
