National Board of Revenue (NBR)
Pahela Baishakh: NBR to organise Halkhata Day
National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to organise Halkhata Day for the second time marking Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year.
10 April 2018
NBR unfreezes Robi’s accounts after VAT pay assurance
Hours within a Supreme Court order today, Robi manages to unfreeze its bank accounts after agreeing to pay due VAT to National Board of Revenue (NBR).
1 March 2018
HC stays NBR step on freezing Robi’s bank account
The High Court stays the National Board of Revenue’s decision of freezing the bank accounts of Robi Axiata Ltd.
27 February 2018
NBR freezes Robi's bank accounts over unpaid VAT
The National Board of Revenue yesterday froze the bank accounts of Robi Axiata Ltd, the country's second largest
26 February 2018
NBR freezes Robi-Axiata’s bank account over tax evasion
National Board of Revenue (NBR) freezes the bank account of mobile operator Robi-Axiata for three working days on allegation of evasion of over Tk 18.72 crore as value added tax (VAT) and supplementary duties.
26 February 2018
Banks remain open till 8pm today, tomorrow
Banks will remain open today and tomorrow until 8:00pm to help people pay taxes and submit income tax returns within the given deadline.
29 November 2017
Foreign workers' tax evasion
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has declared its intention to go after both the companies hiring foreign nationals and individual foreign nationals working in the country on the issue of tax evasion.
4 October 2017
Mobile operators for withdrawal of tax burden
Mobile operators association urges the government to withdraw the tax burden over mobile usage like supplementary duty and surcharge on all services.
25 June 2016
Govt to introduce Oct 30 as Tax Day
Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes to set October 30 as the official ‘Tax Day’ changing it from September 30.
2 June 2016
Govt backtracks on new VAT law
The government has backtracked on its move to implement the new VAT law from the start of the new fiscal year in the face of resistance from businesses, a section of revenue officials and inadequate preparation by the National Board of Revenue (NBR).
2 June 2016
15% VAT won’t be imposed at a time: Tofail
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed says the government will not impose 15 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on businessmen at a time.
15 May 2016
Income tax fair begins today
The sixth annual tax fair begins throughout the country from today.
16 September 2015
HC questions VAT on private university tuition fee
The High Court questions legality of imposing 7.5 percent value-added tax (VAT) on tuition fees of private universities.
8 September 2015
20pc duty on sugar import
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) imposes 20 percent Regulatory Duty (RD) on raw and refined sugar in order to protect local mills from losses due to falling prices of the sweetener in the international market.
26 August 2015
DCs propose to add 1 lakh taxpayers every year
The deputy commissioners of the country propose that each of them would add one lakh new taxpayers per year.
28 July 2015