Tour operator services, which include hotels and resorts as well as tour guides, may also no longer enjoy a 15 percent VAT exemption.

The government has brought some changes in the duty structure for importing laptops in order to make the devices more affordable and bring relief to freelancers and students..The government plans to increase import duty of laptops from 5 percent to 10 percent and at the same time wants to

Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali today proposed imposing a 5 percent import duty and a 10 percent regulatory duty on shelled cashew nuts.

Threshold increased for women, senior citizens, physically challenged persons, third gender, freedom fighters

None will raise question if a taxpayer pays a 15 percent tax for immovable properties

Tk 5,000 for those under Dhaka, Chattogram city corporations

The government plans to raise supplementary duty by 5 percentage points

SD on SIM will be raised to 20% and VAT on eSIM will be increased to Tk 300 each

Flat 7.5% VAT imposed on these appliances

The supplementary duty will be raised by 1 percentage point

This is the 54th budget of the country

However, overall shipments grew 2.01 percent to $51.54 billion in July-May, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).

As new finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali gears up to place his first budget for FY25, the lack of good governance in the banking sector remains a widely discussed issue.

For example, when the Dakar Declaration came in 2000, the country said it would spend 6 percent of GDP on education. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation recommends earmarking four to six percent of the GDP for the sector.

In line with the prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $4.7 billion loan programme, the target is to reduce bad loans of state-run banks to 10 percent of their outstanding loans by 2026.

Experts and businesspeople also highlighted the challenges linked with the current tax and incentive system.

The prices of broiler chicken and eggs, staple food sources for protein for many middle and low-income groups, have increased in the country's markets over the past week due to shortages in supply and an increase in production costs.

Overall, Petrobangla can currently supply around 2,600 mmcfd against a demand of 3,800 mmcfd.

Bangladesh’s poverty rate in 2016 may have been 1.7 to 2.3 percentage points higher than the rate estimated by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics while the extreme poverty rate may have been 3.5 to 3.7 percentage points lower, according to a survey by the World Bank..The findings of the s

Factories in industrial belts need 15 PSI (pounds per square inch) of gas pressure, but are getting a maximum of 3 PSI