budget
Why silent on troubled banks?
In a rare show of anger and frustration, some ruling party and opposition lawmakers blasted the finance minister in parliament yesterday for his complete silence on the widespread irregularities in...
Here’s what the 2022-23 budget must address
The national budget for the next fiscal year will be the third since the start of the Covid-19 crisis in March 2020. Can we expect it to address the current realities, contexts and challenges of...
Why silent on troubled banks?
In a rare show of anger and frustration, some ruling party and opposition lawmakers blasted the finance minister in parliament yesterday for his complete silence on the widespread irregularities in...
Why digitising our public services is so important
It is hardly a subject that is discussed in the public domain nowadays, but one recalls “Digital Bangladesh” being the centrepiece of the ruling party's electoral campaign in 2008 and onwards....
Budget without a basis
Our finance minister has proposed a mega budget of Tk 4,00,266 crore for FY2017-18, of which Tk 1,53,331 crore is earmarked for Annual Development Programme (ADP).
Budget not feasible, for the people: BNP
Proposed budget is not for the development of the people, BNP says in its budget reaction.
Pension for pvt jobholders by 2019: Muhith
Finance Minister AMA Muhith says the government plans to introduce pension scheme for the private sector by the end of its tenure in 2019.
How will the government arrange the money?
I must say that the budget is too ambitious in terms of size. It's 15.5 percent larger than the current FY's initial budget and 29 percent higher than the revised one.
Prices down, prices up
The finance minister proposes changes to duties and taxes on different products, which will result in increase and decrease in their prices.
Electronic cash register outside district towns to be mandatory
To ensure deposition of VAT by traders outside district towns, the government has planned to make it mandatory for trading units outside the district towns to use Electronic Cash Register (ECR) and...
No change in tax-exempted income threshold for individuals
The government has decided not to bring any change to seven tax rates, which include tax-exempted income-threshold for individual tax payers.