Barcelona prosecutors have cleared Lionel Messi in a tax fraud case but are seeking an 18-month prison sentence for his father, Jorge.

The sixth annual tax fair begins throughout the country from today.

Works by Modigliani, Picasso and Thomas Gainsborough, owned by the former owner of Sotheby's, are to be sold by the auction house later this year.

Exporters including apparel manufacturers will have to pay 0.6 percent tax at source on their income from exports from the upcoming fiscal year, as the government reduced the rate from the proposed 1 percent.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith in his budget speech proposes an increase of tax at source for all export sectors to 1 percent.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes increasing the ceiling of tax-free income to Tk 2.50 lakh from Tk 2.20 lakh.

Finance minister is unveiling the budget for 2015-16 fiscal – what is believed to be a jumbo size of around Tk 295,100 crore.

A temporary security lockdown at the US Capitol comes to an end after a man shot himself dead in front of the complex on Saturday, police said.