The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday approved a case against three officials of the National Board of Revenue for their alleged involvement in concealing tax files of a company to allow it to evade Tk 146 crore in income tax.
The approval was given at a commission meeting on the day, said ACC deputy director Md Akhtarul Islam.
He said that ACC assistant director Minhaj Bin Islam would file the case soon.
The accused in the case are Abu Sayeed Md Mustaq, a commissioner of taxes at Dhaka Tax Zone-5, additional tax commissioner Golam Kabir, and deputy tax commissioner Linkon Roy.
On July 10, the ACC鈥檚 enforcement unit conducted a drive at the office of Tax Zone-5, Circle-90 (Company) in Dhaka, following allegations that the income tax files of a taxpayer company had been concealed, causing a revenue loss of Tk 146.57 crore to the government.
During the drive, it was found that the taxpayer company鈥檚 payable income tax for the assessment of fiscal years 2020鈥�21 and 2021鈥�22 had been determined at Tk 72.96 crore and Tk 73.61 crore, respectively, totaling Tk 146.57 crore.
However, when the cases were later selected for audit by the NBR, the responsible officials determined no tax for FY 2020-21 and fixed the tax liability at Tk 1,299 for FY 2021-22, which the ACC considered unusual and deliberate.
The ACC also found that the original files relating to the reduced tax orders were missing, as the commission suspected that the files were intentionally removed to facilitate tax evasion.
ACC approves two cases against ex-Tax inspector, his wife for illegal wealth
The commission on Thursday also approved two cases against former tax inspector Md Abdul Bari (SM Bari) and his wife Firoza Begum on charges of amassing illegal wealth beyond their known sources of income.
The commission approved the cases at a meeting of the commission on the day, said ACC director general (prevention) Md Akhtar Hossain.
According to the ACC findings, ACC approved a case against Abdul Bari on charges of concealing wealth worth Tk 96.60 lakh and amassing illegal assets worth Tk 19.32 lakh.
Another case was filed against Firoza Begum on charges of concealing assets worth Tk 3.31 crore and amassing wealth worth Tk 3.92 crore beyond known sources of income.
Abdul Bari will also be made an accused with his wife in the case, said the ACC officials.