The High Court on Thursday started fresh hearing on two writ petitions filed by Grameen Kalyan, a nonprofit social business company founded by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, challenging the National Board of Revenue鈥檚 claim of Tk聽600 crore income tax from the company for the years 2013 to 2017.聽
The bench of Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar and Justice SM Maniruzzaman later adjourned the hearing of Grameen Kalyan鈥檚 petitions until July 16.
The government will get a total of Tk 600 crore as revenue from Grameen Kalyan, if NBR wins the legal battle in the case, assistant attorney general Tahamina Polly told reporters.
Grameen Kalyan filed the writ petition after the Joint Commissioner of Tax in a letter to the company in 2017 claimed Tk 600 crore after reassessment of the Grameen Kalyan鈥檚 income tax for the five tax years.
Grameen Kalyan lawyer Sarder Jinnat Ali argued that the NBR order for reassessment of income tax of the company was illegal as it submitted its income tax time to time.
The NBR has been demanding fresh income tax from Yunus and his founded social business entities after reopening and re-assessment of the companies鈥� tax files.
Yunus, also chairman of Grameen Telecom, has been facing more than 170 cases, most of which are relating to alleged violation of the rights of workers.
He was sentenced to six months in jail by the Third Dhaka Labour Court on January 1 along with his three Grameen Telecom colleagues in a case filed by the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments on September 9, 2021 for violating labour law by Grameen Telecom Company.
