The finance minister proposes changes to duties and taxes on different products, which will result in increase and decrease in their prices.

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 point of sale (POS) system.

The government has decided not to bring any change to seven tax rates, which include tax-exempted income-threshold for individual tax payers.

The government has proposed raising allocation in the education sector by 32 percent to Tk 49,009 crore in the next fiscal year compared to the allocation in the outgoing FY.

In face of protests from businessmen, the government has decided not to implement a flat VAT rate for small traders and instead almost doubled the package VAT.

Cost for mobile phone use will increase in the next fiscal as Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposed to hike the duty on SIM card-related services to 5 percent.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has been unveiling Tk 340,605 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2016-17 – what is around 29 percent bigger from the current fiscal year.

On average, a teacher handles 50 students, when it should be no more than 30. Can it be denied that much more should be spent on primary education and at other stages of education?

Activists have demanded that the government increase budgetary allocation for migrants and their families in the upcoming national budget of 2016-17.

The government announces cash incentives on exports of furniture and plastic products in a bid to encourage the businesses to export more.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the speakers and parliamentarians of South Asia for allocating budgets to enable the countries for the full implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has responded angrily to reports suggesting Lionel Messi will leave the club, insisting that the reports are "embarrassing".

The disparity in the remuneration of female actors versus the male actors in India, has now attracted a reaction from Katrina Kaif.

Parliament unanimously passes the near Tk 3 trillion budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year that has a deficit of below five percent.

Writing on budget has become a challenge for me not only because so much has already been discussed, but there is barely anything original in the budget.

Bangladesh does not make “significant progress” toward meeting requirements of fiscal transparency for 2015, report says.

Sitting in a factory in Guangzhou trying to order fire doors for the factories is no fun.

Jatiya Pratibandi Forum (JPF), in a press conference on Sunday, highlighted that there has not been any significant allocation for development of people with disabilities in the national budget...

The proposed additional customs duty on sugar import will be withdrawn says the Finance Minister AMA Muhith

Finance Minister AMA Muhith says the revenue collection target of the proposed for fiscal 2015-2016 is high, but achievable.