The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to take tough action to realise taxes from the parties involved in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 tournament.
Yesterday, April 30, was the last day to settle payments but NBR got only a nominal amount from those concerned.
“We will take drastic action to realise taxes. We will set our next course of action in a meeting which will take place within this week,” said Kanon Kumar Roy, director general of Directorate of Inspection (Taxes), Dhaka yesterday.
“Many of them requested us to extend the date for paying the dues, but we are not considering their appeals,” he added.
According to NBR officials, the tax authorities got only one crore taka but they have projected to get nearly Tk 20 crore from the BPL parties which includes event management firm Game On Sports, the six franchises, players' salaries as well as the BPL governing council itself.
NBR had formed a team headed by Kanon Kumar Roy to monitor all financial transactions in a bid to ensure that all taxes are going to the state coffers.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) held a meeting yesterday with the owners of all participating teams of the inaugural edition of BPL to discuss issues related to player payment.
In a statement, the board informed that the franchise owners gave their commitment to the board that all outstanding payment of overseas players will be cleared by May 9.
BCB also received firm assurance that the dues of the local cricketers will be settled by May 31. The Twenty20 tournament ended on February 29.