ambitious budget
Budget difficult to implement: Raushan
Terming the proposed 2016-17 national budget “highly ambitious”, Opposition Leader in the parliament Raushan Ershad says it will be very difficult to implement this big size budget.
Of Obesity or Good Health?
The Finance Minister has proposed a mega Tk.3.4 trillion budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2016-17. It is about 29 percent higher than the revised budget of the outgoing fiscal year.
Budget difficult to implement: Raushan
Terming the proposed 2016-17 national budget “highly ambitious”, Opposition Leader in the parliament Raushan Ershad says it will be very difficult to implement this big size budget.
No one in BNP to give reactions
The BNP that ruled the country for over 10 years in two terms since the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh in 1990 is struggling to come up with formal reactions to the proposed budget for fiscal 2016-17.
Hike in source tax ‘absurd’
The proposed 1.5 percent tax at source on export is 'absurd' and 'abnormal' as such a high rate might hamper the growth of local
Ambitious targets set deliberately
Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said he deliberately set an ambitious revenue generation target in the upcoming budget, hoping for more tax collection by the National Board of Revenue. “I have said in the budget speech that it is deliberately ambitious,” he told reporters at a post-budget briefing in the capital's Osmani Memorial Auditorium.
Allocation rises for digitisation
The proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year increases investment in digitising government services by 36.01 percent year on year.
An ambitious budget
The finance minister has presented the 45th annual budget of Tk3.4 trillion that is 29 per cent bigger than the last fiscal.
Budget anti-people
Opposition leaders yesterday termed the proposed budget for the next fiscal year anti-people and not feasible.
Super rich have to pay more taxes
The super rich would have to pay more tax as the budget proposed restructuring the surcharge on individual's net wealth and increase the maximum rate up to 30 percent.
Down under VAT glut
Returning early from work, Mahbub Alam, an employee of a non-government organisation, flopped down on his couch and